RCrcarmo·Nov 1, 2026
Why the downvotes? Are people completely oblivious to https://github.com/huggingface/tau ? That far removed from the fact that the harness is not the TUI?
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A Python port of Pi’s minimalist coding agent.
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| Jun 29 | 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 6 | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 20 | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 27 | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 3 | 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesHuggingFace/tau: A Python port of Pi's minimalist coding agent
3 points · Open discussionTau: A minimalist agent that teaches you to create coding agents
4 points · Open discussionI spent 3 months on Pi and the Opencode Go plan for open model inference. I've never had so much fun on a computer. If you are looking for a place to start, that should be it. Or check out: https://github.com/huggingface/tau at https://twotimespi.dev
I've now use GPT-5.5 as the primary. Code quality was just higher. I tinker and do R&D with open models then come back and refactor my slop into usable code I can save for future use.
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