pepa-pi-bot/README.md

pepa-pi-bot

An autonomous self-extending Minecraft player, powered by Pi and the Mineflayer protocol stack. Built for the pepa survival server.

The bot is not a finished application. It is a seed: a Pi agent with an initial mandate and a hand-off to a Minecraft server. From there, the agent is expected to grow its own toolset — writing new skills, fetching extensions, and adapting its behaviour as it plays.

Concept

Most Minecraft AI bots ship as monolithic projects: hard-coded actions, fixed prompts, a single LLM provider. This repo flips that around.

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Pi (terminal agent, model-agnostic)          │
│  ├── AGENTS.md   ← initial mandate            │
│  ├── skills/     ← grown over time            │
│  └── extensions/ ← TS plugins, also grown     │
└───────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                │ spawns / controls
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Mineflayer client                            │
│  - joins MC server as a real player           │
│  - chat, movement, inventory, world events    │
└───────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                │ TCP 25565
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  pepa Minecraft server                        │
│  Paper 26.1.2 · cracked · AuthMe · BlueMap    │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The Pi agent is the brain. Mineflayer is the body. The bridge between them — the skills, the prompt templates, the supervision loop — is meant to be written by the agent itself, starting from a minimal scaffold in this repo.

Prerequisites

Tool	Why	How to get it
Pi ≥ 0.75	The agent runtime. Reads AGENTS.md, loads skills, calls the LLM.	curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh
Node.js ≥ 20	Required by Pi and by Mineflayer.	brew install node / nvm install 20
An LLM credential	One of: OpenAI API key, Anthropic API key, or an OAuth-authenticated subscription (/login inside Pi). ChatGPT Pro / Claude Max work via OAuth on supported providers.	See Authentication
A Minecraft account or cracked nick	The bot joins as a real player. The pepa server runs in cracked mode, so any nickname works.	—
Network access to the MC server	Direct TCP to host:25565.	—

The bot does not need its own Minecraft client install, server access, RCON, or any special server-side plugin. It joins as a vanilla player over the standard protocol.

Quickstart

# 1. Clone
git clone git@github.com:xmatic-squad/pepa-pi-bot.git
cd pepa-pi-bot

# 2. Configure credentials
cp .env.example .env
$EDITOR .env          # fill in MC_HOST, MC_USERNAME, AuthMe password, LLM provider, etc.

# 3. Install Node deps (mineflayer + dotenv to start)
npm install

# 4. Authenticate Pi with your LLM provider
pi /login             # OAuth flow — works with ChatGPT Pro / Claude Max
# OR
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
# OR
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# 5. Launch the agent in this directory
pi

On first launch Pi loads AGENTS.md from the project root. That file is the seed prompt — it tells the agent who it is, what server it should join, and that it is expected to extend itself.

Sessions persist by default. Use pi -c to resume the last conversation.

Authentication

Pi supports 15+ LLM providers and two credential modes:

1. OAuth subscription login — pi then /login inside the TUI. Suitable for ChatGPT Plus/Pro, Claude Max, and other subscriptions that ship an OAuth flow. No metered API billing.
2. API key environment variables — OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, etc. Metered, but no UI.

You can mix providers via --provider openai --model gpt-5 at launch. Cheaper models for idle ticks, smarter ones for hard decisions.

How the agent extends itself

Pi has first-class support for three growth surfaces:

• skills/ — Markdown-defined capabilities Pi can invoke. The agent can Write new ones at runtime when it discovers a missing capability.
• extensions/ — TypeScript modules registering new tools, commands, or UI tweaks. Installed via pi install npm:<pkg> / pi install git:<url> or written in-tree.
• prompts/ — Reusable prompt templates. Useful for cron-driven tick prompts ("what should I do next minute?").

The opening AGENTS.md instructs the agent to start by writing a mineflayer-bridge extension that can:

• connect to the configured MC server
• register with AuthMe
• emit world events back into the agent loop
• expose chat / move / dig / place / equip / attack as Pi tools

Everything beyond that — farming, exploration, base-building, player interaction — should emerge from the agent itself.

Project layout

pepa-pi-bot/
├── README.md           ← you are here
├── AGENTS.md           ← seed prompt, loaded by Pi on launch
├── .env.example        ← all required env vars, no secrets
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE             ← MIT
├── package.json        ← node deps (mineflayer + dotenv to start)
├── skills/             ← grown by the agent (markdown skills)
├── extensions/         ← grown by the agent (typescript extensions)
├── prompts/            ← reusable prompt templates
└── docs/
    └── architecture.md ← longer-form design notes

Safety boundaries

The pepa server is a shared survival world. The agent must not:

• be given OP rights on the server
• destroy player-built structures without explicit human request
• spam chat
• exfiltrate the AuthMe password or any other secret into chat / world / web

These rules are mirrored in AGENTS.md and should be re-stated at the top of any system prompt that overrides it.

Status

🌱 Seedling. The repo currently ships only the scaffold and the initial mandate. The first real milestone is: agent connects, registers via AuthMe, sends hello in chat, writes its first skill (logout-on-shutdown). Everything past that emerges from interaction.

License

MIT © xmatic-squad