Tau Crash Course: The Python Port of Pi
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Tau is a minimalist coding-agent harness inspired by Pi and implemented in Python. This crash course tours its Textual TUI, provider login and model selection, tree-structured sessions, skills, custom prompts, themes, extensions, and the architectural differences between Tau and Pi. --- 🔗 *Links* - Tau website and documentation: https://twotimespi.dev/ - Tau on GitHub: https://github.com/huggingface/tau - Pi coding agent: https://pi.dev/ - Textual: https://textual.textualize.io/ - Hugging Face Inference Providers: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/ - Tau subagents extension by Rian Dolphin: https://github.com/rian-dolphin/tau-subagents - cmux terminal: https://cmux.com/ --- 👋 *Connect with me* - My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/ - X (Twitter): https://x.com/_alejandroao - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-ao/ --- 🤓 *Topics Covered* - Tau coding agent architecture and Python implementation - TUI, models, sessions, skills, prompts, and themes - Tau versus Pi and extension compatibility --- ⏱️ *Timestamps* 0:00 Introduction 0:58 Tau TUI Tour 4:15 Log In to Model Providers 5:03 Select and Use a Model 6:36 Rename a Session 7:00 Resume Sessions 8:19 Session Trees and Branching 11:44 Export and Analyze Sessions 15:14 Export Sessions as JSONL 15:45 Skills 19:14 Custom Prompts 20:59 Themes 22:01 Tau vs Pi
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