Engine credits and open standards

Salambo's agent engine builds on Pi, created by Mario Zechner and published by Earendil under the MIT license. Thank you to Pi's authors and contributors.

Salambo maintains a fork of the Pi v0.83.0 harness, running on @earendil-works/pi-ai and @earendil-works/pi-agent-core 1.3.0. Salambo owns the hosted Run and Turn lifecycle, the managed sandbox integration, persistence, and its supported extension profile. @salambo-ai/agent is Salambo's extension surface, not a redistribution of every Pi coding-agent export.

The fork keeps Pi's MIT license: the published salambo CLI package, which bundles the harness, ships Pi's copyright and license notice, as does any Salambo package that contains Pi-derived code. Salambo did not invent the underlying engine, and its own naming does not remove upstream license obligations.

Shared standards

• AGENTS.md is an open instruction-file convention.
• Agent Skills defines portable SKILL.md resources.
• Model Context Protocol is an open integration protocol, not a Salambo-owned format.

Using an open format does not mean every loader, terminal feature, community package or MCP client is supported by Salambo. See project structure for the actual discovery boundaries and Coming from Pi for compatibility and migration.