@XAMTO_AI: Want to write a coding agent yourself? You've read plenty of articles about the principles, but you get stuck at the first line when you actually start. Recently I found the Chinese tutorial *Hands-On Pi*, which starts with a real offline agent log and takes you through all 15 levels from the beginning. Truly build a complete coding agent from scratch—every step has runnable code...
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Introduces the Chinese tutorial *Hands-On Pi*, covering the step-by-step implementation of a Pi-style coding agent from scratch through 15 runnable checkpoints, including protocols, tool loops, conversation tree storage, context compression, and evaluation. Each chapter comes with the main text, a corresponding commit, tests, and failure experiments.
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Learn Pi by Doing
Along 15 checkpoints, starting from an offline trajectory, implement a Pi-style coding agent by hand.
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