Honestly, the provided argument for it is rather weak. They are basically adding a way of running scripts that are contained within harness to execute harness's own tools (that's the Codemode). A coding agent can already compose any arbitrary logic by invoking shell scripts (or python scripts, or node scripts), etc - so this is just entirely unnecessary in the core, from my perspective.
If you feel that Pi has been drifting away from its original vision, try hax (https://usehax.dev/) - you might like it.
If you feel that Pi has been drifting away from its original vision, try hax (https://usehax.dev/) - you might like it.