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Zeno is a desktop shell for the pi coding agent, developed and published by aletheics. The software provides a Codex-style user interface through which the pi coding agent can be operated from a desktop environment, serving as a graphical front end rather than a standalone agent itself. Its core design principle is that configuration, packages, sessions, and tools remain on the native pi side, stored under the ~/.pi/agent directory, so that the shell layers its interface on top of the agent's existing local setup instead of duplicating or relocating that state. This makes Zeno relevant to users who already work with the pi coding agent and prefer managing their work through a dedicated desktop UI. The software falls within the developer tools category, specifically the segment of desktop interfaces and shells for AI coding agents, and its use cases center on interacting with coding-agent sessions, handling the agent's configuration and packages, and accessing its tools from a unified desktop environment. Because sessions and tools stay on the native pi side, workflows established through the shell remain tied to the agent's own storage location. The current release is version 0.1.6, and the project has published five versions in total, indicating an early-stage but actively iterated release line. The version numbering, still within the 0.x range, reflects ongoing development by aletheics. As a catalog entry, Zeno is positioned for developers and coding-agent users seeking a Codex-style desktop experience for pi, with its distinguishing characteristic being the deliberate separation between the desktop presentation layer and the agent's native data, all of which continues to reside in ~/.pi/agent across configuration, packages, sessions, and tools.
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