Ollama has added the "ollama launch pi" command to easily start the Minimalist Coding Agent.

According to 1M AI News, Ollama has announced support for one-click Pi launch via the ollama launch pi command. Pi is a minimalistic AI programming Agent toolkit developed by Mario Zechner, with a built-in plugin extension system allowing users to even have Pi write extensions for themselves. Pi is globally installed via npm, with the configuration file located in the ~/.pi/agent/ directory, supporting integration with Ollama local models (such as qwen3-coder) and multiple cloud providers.

Ollama founder Jeffrey Morgan praised Pi's elegant design, enabling high customization and showing good performance even with small-parameter models (including the Qwen 3.5 series local models). The ollama launch command was introduced on January 23 this year, supporting zero-configuration launches of Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Droid, and other programming tools. The addition of Pi further expands the available Agent ecosystem.