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OpenCode and Pi (via pi-claude-code) can both use a local Claude Code login. OpenCode keeps a Claude Code session open across tool calls, while Pi runs a fresh worker for each step and replays the transcript.

Code mode lets the model write a script that calls tools. Pi Durable makes that script resume after a restart without rerunning finished calls. What code mode is, how durable replay works, and when to reach for it.

Pi Durable's building blocks: persisted tasks, conversations, application state, and agents whose work can survive the process that started it.

How I use pi's /tree to manage context windows in long coding sessions, when to choose /tree vs /fork, and patterns that feel like lightweight subagents without leaving one session.

Part 4 of my gym-coding series: using a Ralph loop to migrate an entire SDK dependency in 81 minutes, what worked, what didn't, and where autonomous loops shine.