Getting Started & First Steps
Welcome, installation and model choice, base and advanced settings, security, sandboxing, shortcuts, sessions, print mode, and controlling tools.
A living course for Pi
Learn Pi by seeing it work.
This is a practical course built as we learn. Every lesson is added only after the student demonstrates real understanding. Start with the verified lesson index.
Course introduction
A short welcome before you begin the first page.
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Current roadmap
The course can grow with you.
These modules come from your current learning list. We will refine their syllabus as you learn and build.
Setup For Practical Use
Packages, third-party setup, guardrails, subagents, self-configuration, more packages, and AGENTS.md.
Core Features & Usage
Referencing files, TUI interaction, terminal commands, project work, planning, and examples.
Extending & Adapting Pi
Agent skills, global skills, prompt templates, extensions, and ideas for extensions.
Advanced Features
Steering, queueing, session storage, cloning, forking, tree, and compaction.
Verified learning
Lessons built from real understanding.
Every lesson appears here only after the student explains the concept correctly.
Verified lesson
Where Settings Apply
General settings, settings for the current working directory, precedence, restart, and safe rollback.
Verified lesson
Focus 1: --no-session
Why a temporary unsaved conversation differs from a new saved Pi session.
Verified lesson
Focus 2: --no-tools
Pi can still chat, but --no-tools starts Pi with all seven built-in tools switched off.
How we learn
See it. Test it. Keep it.
Understand the control
Read the setting in context and identify what it is designed to affect.
Test the behavior
Make one safe, scoped change and watch how Pi responds.
Make it yours
Keep the setting only when it helps your actual work, then log the choice.
Ready now
Continue with verified learning.
The course index now grows whenever a concept is understood, converted into a bilingual lesson, and verified for publication.