JetBrains/thinkrail
Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE that customises itself around the way you work — The Vibe You Need
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[](https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/ALL/JetBrains+on+GitHub) [](https://star-history.com/#JetBrains/thinkrail&Date) [](https://thinkrail.ai/discord) ThinkRail is the agentic IDE that gets better every time you use it — learning your project through living specs today, and building its own capabilities tomorrow. We built a rich interface around the pi coding agent, isolated work into separate workspaces, and gave the agent durable project knowledge through living specs and reusable skills. Next, we're adding full extension support, so ThinkRail can create the tools it needs based on how you actually work. Website: thinkrail.ai · Blog: thinkrail.ai/blog · Discord: thinkrail.ai/discord ⭐ If you find ThinkRail useful, give it a star — it helps others discover it. A pi session and the change it made, scoped to an isolated git-worktree workspace. each with its own branch and working directory. Agents work in parallel without touching your checkout; merge the good branch, delete the rest. You can also attach existing worktrees or explicitly work in the…
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- ThinkRail
- What you get
- Install
- Desktop
- Command line
- Platform notes
- Analytics & privacy
- Under the hood
- Developing ThinkRail
- Contributing
- Community
- License
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What this repository does
Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE that customises itself around the way you work — The Vibe You Need
Repository facts
- Owner
- JetBrains
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 6,343
- Forks
- 343
- Open issues + pull requests
- 196
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-07-08T07:40:43.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-25T11:26:26.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: agent, agent-skills, agentic-ai, agentic-workflow, ai-coding, ai-tools, pi-agent, pi-agent-extension, spec-driven, spec-driven-coding, spec-driven-development, vibe-coding, vibecoding
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