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No. 13 of 14 · Diamonds in the rough · 7 October 2026

Your coding agent’s sessions, on your own server

pi pod, its README says, runs sessions of the pi coding agent in sandboxes on a server you run yourself, driven from a terminal or from its iOS and Android apps, with sign in through Zitadel and no passwords stored on the server. A hosted version is coming and not available yet.

Score 5 of 9: new 3 of 3, momentum 0 of 3, evidence 2 of 3. Momentum measured: 155 to 155 stars in 0.3 hours (0.0% a day), read 2026-10-07T14:51:04Z. A short interval; re-check due 9 to 10 October.

Who started it
The pi-pod organisation on GitHub, 1 October; its licence names Billzo, LLC
How we found it
GitHub search first; then Show HN

Why it matters Remote agent sessions you can drive from a phone, without a vendor’s cloud in the middle.

The receipt

4 facts: 2 SAW, 2 STATED. SAW: fetched and read by us. STATED: a source’s own claim, quoted. Check any line against its source before you repeat it.

  1. STATED “from a terminal or a phone, on a server you run yourself” Stated by pi pod README.
  2. SAW Repo created 1 Oct 2026 at 18:44 UTC: 155 stars, 3 forks Read 7 Oct 2026 14:36 UTC.
  3. SAW Show HN, 2 Oct 2026 at 19:10 UTC: 121 points, 47 comments Read 7 Oct 2026 14:34 UTC.
  4. STATED Licensed AGPL 3.0; the README names Billzo, LLC as the copyright holder Stated by pi pod README.

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