Pi Web: local setup and Copilot Chat alternative

Pi Web is a browser interface for the Pi coding agent. The speaker presents it as a free, self-hosted alternative to Copilot Chat that runs entirely on the user's machine. Its described purpose is to give people already using Pi a visual workspace for their existing agent sessions.

The walkthrough covers browsing past conversations and forking a session to try a different direction. Users can also chat with the agent while previewing project files beside the conversation. These are the specific workflow features described in the clip; the Copilot Chat comparison does not include a feature-by-feature evaluation or coding performance results.

For setup, the speaker says users can start Pi Web with one command through NPX or a global install, then open localhost in a browser. The transcript does not provide the exact command, platform requirements, or model configuration. Although the interface is described as running locally, the clip does not establish whether the underlying model also runs on the same machine or whether the full workflow works offline.