Hey, I'm Aliou. I'm a developer based in France. I run General Dexterity, my consulting practice. You can also read about what I'm learning and follow what I'm working on.
I am available for select contracting work in Q2 and Q3 2026. Please reach out if you are interested — contact+gh@general-dexterity.com · book a call
I contribute to Pi and build extensions and tools for it. If one of them saves you time, consider sponsoring me on GitHub, like Pi's creator Mario Zechner, and the fine people at Modem, Anomaly, creators of Opencode.
- pi-harness — Opinionated configuration for the Pi coding agent, with remote and async workflows.
- @aliou/pi-guardrails (npm) — Security hooks for Pi. Prevents dangerous operations, protects env files, and gates destructive commands.
- @aliou/pi-processes (npm) — Background process management for Pi. Start dev servers, watchers, and log tails without blocking the conversation.
- @aliou/pi-synthetic (npm) — Pi provider for Synthetic, with open-source models through an OpenAI-compatible API.
- @aliou/pi-ts-aperture (npm) — Route Pi LLM providers through Tailscale Aperture.
- @aliou/pi-linkup (npm) — Web search, answer, and content fetching via the Linkup API.
- @aliou/pi-toolchain (npm) — Opinionated toolchain enforcement. Transparently rewrites commands to use preferred tools.
- @aliou/pi-dev-kit (npm) — Tools and commands for developing and updating Pi extensions.
- @aliou/pi-neuralwatt (npm) — Neuralwatt inference API provider with energy transparency.
- @aliou/pi-linear — Manage Linear issues, projects, and teams directly from Pi.
- @aliou/pi-playdate — Build, run, inspect, and deploy Playdate games in Lua and C from Pi.
- nvim-pi — Bidirectional communication between Neovim and Pi.
- pi-undercooked — Experimental and proof-of-concept Pi extensions.
- @aliou/pi-utils-settings (npm) — Shared settings UI and config loader for Pi extensions.
- @aliou/pi-utils-ui (npm) — Shared TUI abstractions for Pi extensions.
- sesame — BM25 full-text search over Pi sessions.
- sh — Shell parser/AST for POSIX, Bash, mksh, and zsh in TypeScript.
- linear-cli — CLI for Linear via GraphQL API.
- fastmail-cli — CLI for FastMail via JMAP.
- preview-markdown — Terminal markdown pager with syntax highlighting using pi-tui.






