That limitation is what stops me from using Pi for anything serious. I may have to configure it and then configure it and it will eventually become a codex, a claude code or so. I recently heard the maintainers added mcp to it (in stock, not via plugin), I wonder what stopped them from adding subagent function, and decent loop capacity to it.

> Currently have auto compaction turned off. When the orchestrator's context is getting close to full, I have it write a handoff markdown file and point a fresh agent at it.

In a good harness that should be how auto compaction works anyway