Tauren

Tauren is a transparent AI coding assistant for VS Code, built on Pi, focused on session-based workflows, code traceability and customizability.

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Philosophy

Tauren follows the same direction as Pi, the backend agent engine it builds on:

• full insight into every tool call
• no hidden prompts
• no black magic

If your clanker followed Order 66 again, Tauren will at least show you exactly what happened.

Features

Trace Origin & Session Diffs

Jump from code back to the historical agent session that created it.

Tauren can reconnect:

• current code
• historical agent context
• related Git commits
• reasoning history

Even across refactors and file moves.

From there, session diffs make it easy to inspect exactly what changed during the session.

Customization via Pi extensions

Aiming to stay on par with everything the ecosystem supports. Today it has:

• Widgets, above and below the prompt
• Status lines
• Themeable Custom UI overlays to support questionnaire plugins and the like
• All fully aware of ANSI escape sequences and the Kitty protocol
• Support for TUI-image rendering and other quirks

What else?

Tauren builds on top of the Pi engine's existing capabilities:

• Tree-based session management
• Resumable sessions
• Transparent tool execution

In addition, it brings to the table:

• A keyboard-centric workflow
• Parallel / background sessions
• IDE context
• File attachments (Drag'n'drop, Copy&Paste, Mouse'n'Click)
• Guardrails to restrict the agent to the workspace, if that's your thing

Can it run Doom?

You bet! And because Τ=2*π, it runs it twice:

Requirements / Setup

Install Tauren, open the Tauren sidebar, then use the settings gear to configure provider authentication and model defaults.

If you already use Pi outside VS Code, Tauren can reuse your existing Pi runtime configuration where applicable. Optional CLI setup looks like:

npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
pi
/login

For more detail, see the Tauren setup docs or the Pi documentation.

Using Tauren

Tauren is heavily keyboard-oriented. I recommend: Play around with the Esc-key.

Everything else is mostly discoverable. If not, /hotkeys is your friend.

Development

npm install
npm run compile

Run tests with:

npm test

For local development in VS Code, launch the extension host from the provided VS Code launch configuration.

License

MIT