Hi everyone

I’ve been hacking on a terminal coding agent called phi https://github.com/pulseaiclub/phi for the past few months, and I’d love to share what it is and why it exists.

If you’ve used tools like Pi, Claude Code, Aider, or Goose, phi tries to hit the same workflow—but deliberately strips away the runtime baggage. It’s a single

Go binary, ~12 MB, with no Node, Electron, or Python in sight.

Here’s what makes it tick: