Comparison table

Every package covered in the capability guides in one place. Search by name, capability, or note; filter by category; and sort by clicking the Package, Category, or Popularity headers. Install any listed package with pi install npm:<package>.

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Package	Category	What it does	Popularity	Notes
pi-subagents guide ↗	Sub-agents & orchestration	Delegate tasks with chains, parallel exec, TUI clarification	Very high	Best general default
@gotgenes/pi-subagents guide ↗	Sub-agents & orchestration	Claude Code-style autonomous sub-agents (fork)	Medium	Friendly fork of @tintinweb
@tintinweb/pi-subagents guide ↗	Sub-agents & orchestration	Claude Code-style autonomous sub-agents	Medium	Upstream original
@pi-agents/orchid guide ↗	Sub-agents & orchestration	Batch orchestrator + Ralph loop + dispatch	Medium	Multi-agent pipelines
context-mode guide ↗	MCP integration	MCP plugin; context savings + FTS5 KB; cross-agent	Very high	Also a context tool
pi-mcp-adapter guide ↗	MCP integration	Connect Pi to arbitrary MCP servers	Very high	Thin, focused adapter
@black-knight.dev/emet guide ↗	MCP integration	Zero-setup grounded web-research MCP server	Medium	Research-scoped
pi-web-access guide ↗	Web search & research	Search, fetch, GitHub clone, PDF, YouTube/video	High	All-in-one toolkit
@juicesharp/rpiv-web-tools guide ↗	Web search & research	Search/fetch with pluggable providers	Medium	Brave, Tavily, Exa, SearXNG…
@ollama/pi-web-search guide ↗	Web search & research	Search/fetch via Ollama web APIs	Medium	Ollama ecosystem
plan-mode (built-in example) guide ↗	Plan mode	Minimal plan-then-execute gate	—	Official, customize it
@plannotator/pi-extension guide ↗	Plan mode	Interactive plan review with annotations	Medium	Also code/PR review
pi-agent-flow guide ↗	Plan mode	Flow-state phase transitions	Low–medium	Whole-session phases
@juicesharp/rpiv-todo guide ↗	Todo & task tracking	Live todo overlay surviving reload/compaction	High	Dedicated todo UI
@pi-agents/orchid guide ↗	Todo & task tracking	Task tracking inside orchestration	Medium	If already orchestrating
@juicesharp/rpiv-ask-user-question guide ↗	Structured questions & UI	Model asks you typed, structured questions	High	Reduces guessing
@juicesharp/rpiv-btw guide ↗	Structured questions & UI	/btw side question without context pollution	Medium	You ask Pi
@juicesharp/rpiv-advisor guide ↗	Structured questions & UI	Second opinion from a stronger model	Medium	Pre-action review
context-mode guide ↗	Context & compaction	Context savings + searchable KB	Very high	Cross-agent
custom-compaction (built-in example) guide ↗	Context & compaction	Topic/code-aware summaries, alt model	—	Write your own
@gotgenes/pi-permission-system guide ↗	Permissions & safety	Rule-based tool-call enforcement	Medium	Approve/block
permission-gate (built-in example) guide ↗	Permissions & safety	Minimal permission/path gate	—	Official base
@a5c-ai/babysitter-pi guide ↗	Permissions & safety	Oversight of long autonomous runs	Medium	Supervision layer
pi-lens guide ↗	Linting & formatting	LSP, linters, formatters, type-check, structure	Medium	Live feedback
pi-posher guide ↗	Linting & formatting	Linters, formatters, security tools	Medium	Tidy-up pass
pi-simplify guide ↗	Linting & formatting	Readability/maintainability review of changes	Medium	Subjective pass
pi-ocr guide ↗	OCR & document extraction	Multi-backend OCR (MinerU/Ollama/Pix2Text)	Medium	Text, formulas, tables
pi-web-access guide ↗	OCR & document extraction	PDF text extraction (subset)	High	URL PDFs only
remote-pi guide ↗	Remote & multi-agent	Phone control + local multi-Pi mesh	Medium	Networking setup
@pi-agents/orchid guide ↗	Remote & multi-agent	Multi-agent pipelines on one host	Medium	Orchestration
pi-subagents guide ↗	Remote & multi-agent	Parallel helpers in one session	Very high	No networking
macos-dev-code guide ↗	Language & platform skills	macOS/SwiftUI skill w/ curated Apple docs	Medium	Skill
@nitra/cursor guide ↗	Language & platform skills	Download Cursor rules into the repo	Medium	Rules loader
Built-in dark / light guide ↗	Themes & UI tweaks	Default hot-reloading themes	—	Zero install
pi-powerline-footer guide ↗	Themes & UI tweaks	Powerline-style status bar	Medium	Needs Nerd Font

About the data

Names, descriptions, and install commands were verified against pi.dev/packages and npm at the time of writing. The Popularity column reflects the catalog’s approximate monthly-download ordering and is a rough signal only — the ecosystem changes daily, so check the source for current figures and new options. Entries marked (built-in example) ship with the Pi repo rather than as installable packages.

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