The pi.dev homepage used to display a proud declaration: Pi does not support MCP. Not an omission, not a TODO. A stateme...

The pi.dev homepage used to display a proud declaration: Pi does not support MCP. Not an omission, not a TODO. A statement of philosophy. The creator, Mario Zechner, had dismissed the Model Context Protocol in blog posts and podcasts for over a year. His argument was concrete, not vibes: a popular Playwright MCP server dumped 21 tool definitions and 13,700 tokens into the model's context on every single session, and a CLI tool with a good README costs zero until the agent actually needs it.On September 29, 2026, Pi shipped version 0.99.0. MCP is now a supported core feature. The team published a self-aware announcement titled "You Said No MCP!" and within hours it was sitting at the top of Hacker News with hundreds of points and hundreds of comments arguing about what it means.Here is the thing: it is not a defeat. It might be the most useful signal about where agent tooling is going all year. First, why the "No MCP" position made sensePi is a minimal coding agent built on a simple rul...