Packages
Browse the community catalog, read package details, and install with one click. Type filters help you find tools fast.
Extend Pi
Pi Packages & Skills, Point-and-Click
The Pi coding agent is extensible: community packages add tools, skills teach it procedures, and prompt templates capture repeated workflows. PiLot Studio gives all three a visual manager inside VS Code — search, install, update, disable, or remove without opening a terminal.
Skills
A dedicated Skills tab lists installed skills and their directories. Toggle individual skills on and off per your workflow.
Prompt templates
Reusable prompts one click away in chat — capture your team's review checklist or scaffolding patterns once.
Why a GUI for package management?
Extensions, skills, and templates only help if you can see them. In PiLot Studio you can inspect what is installed, what each resource does, and what state it is in — then change it in place. Disabling a noisy skill takes one toggle, not a config edit and a restart.
Popular things to install first
- Code intelligence packs — richer project analysis for the agent.
- Language skills — framework-specific procedures your agent can follow.
- Prompt templates — your recurring prompts as clickable actions.
PiLot also plays nicely with curated collections like pi-skills, and honors Pi's extraSkills / extraExtensions settings for
custom directories.
Power features underneath
- Slash commands invoke Pi CLI built-ins and available skills directly from chat.
- Disable individual packages or skills when a project calls for a lean agent.
- Light Mode runs the agent with skills, extensions, and context files off — ideal for local llama.cpp models.
New to Pi? Start with the Pi coding agent overview or install PiLot Studio.