Show HN: Delegate Claude Code's work to pi and a cheaper model

Category: ai-ml

Tags: llm, cost-optimization, coding-agent, claude-code, orchestration

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

pi-delegate is a Claude Code plugin that offloads implementation work to a cheaper open-source coding agent called pi, using Claude only for planning and verification via a deterministic test command. It reports a 33% reduction in Claude token cost on multi-file tasks while maintaining test pass rates, with modest but honest benchmark data.

Target audience: Claude Code users and backend/devops engineers looking to reduce LLM costs

Repository: https://github.com/randomm/pi-delegate · Shell · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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