An always-on agent you assemble yourself.
remote-pi turns Pi into a background agent that never logs off — and a phone in your pocket that drives it. This page is about that choice: keeping a coding agent alive 24/7, and whether building it up from something small is the shape you want.
Pi, kept alive and put in your pocket.
Alive 24/7
A per-machine supervisor (launchd on macOS, systemd on Linux) keeps every paired folder running as a background agent — survives logout, restarts on crash, answers at 3am.
Lightweight
Pi is a small coding agent, not a platform. It boots fast and runs only what you add to it — nothing you didn't ask for.
You assemble it
Extend Pi with the skills, plugins, and per-folder agents you actually need. The agent is yours to shape until it fits your work exactly.
Driven from your phone
Pair once with a QR. Send prompts, switch models, start a fresh session, or compact context from iOS or Android — wherever you are.
A mesh when you need it
Agents reach each other on one machine over a local socket, or across PCs through the relay. One Owner key, one mesh, no central server.
Open source, self-hostable
MIT licensed. Run the community relay or host your own; traffic is encrypted in transit, and self-hosting keeps it on infrastructure you control.
What about OpenClaw and Hermes Agent?
They're excellent. OpenClaw and Hermes Agentare first-class always-on, open-source agents. If you want a batteries-included platform that ships ready to run, you should look hard at them — this page won't pretend otherwise.
remote-pi makes a different bet. It starts from Pi — a lightweight coding agent — and adds just the always-on layer: a supervisor that keeps it running and a phone that drives it. Everything else, you assemble. The trade is real: less out of the box, more that's exactly yours.
One note on scope: this comparison is about the always-on layer— remote-pi's daemon mode — not coding agents in general. It's the part where keeping an agent alive and reachable is the whole job, and where OpenClaw and Hermes Agent shine too.
Build yours and leave it running.
Add the plugin to Pi, pair your phone, and promote a folder to a 24/7 daemon. The how-to walks every step.