According to 1M AI News, Ollama has announced support for launching Pi with the command `ollama launch pi`, a minimalist AI programming agent toolkit developed by Mario Zechner, featuring an integrated plugin extension system that allows users to have Pi write extensions for itself. Pi is installed globally via npm, with configuration files stored in the ~/.pi/agent/ directory, and supports integration with local Ollama models (such as qwen3-coder) and multiple cloud service providers.
Ollama founder Jeffrey Morgan praised Pi as elegantly designed, allowing high customization and delivering strong performance even with small parameter models, including the Qwen 3.5 series of local models. The ollama launch command, introduced on January 23 of this year, supports zero-configuration startup of programming tools such as Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and Droid; the addition of Pi further expands the available Agent ecosystem.