pi-editor-shell

Replaces pi's default editor and status bar with a unified rounded-corner shell drawn with box-drawing glyphs (╭╮││╰╯), with status info embedded in the border. No Nerd Font required for the frame itself.

What shows up where

• Top border — model · thinking-level (left) + pinned extension statuses (right, via pinnedStatus config)
• Bottom border — ctx NN%/NNNk · cache-tokens (left) + ~current/dir (branch) (right, includes git branch when available)
• Below shell — Auto-wrapping extension status line (all setStatus entries not pinned to the top)
• Border color follows pi's thinking-level / bash-mode indicator automatically.

All segments are re-read from live session state on every paint, so switching thinking level or burning context updates the frame on the next render with no extra wiring.

Configuration

In ~/.pi/agent/settings.json under the editorShell key:

{
  "editorShell": {
    // Status keys to pin to the top-right corner of the shell.
    // Only keys set via ctx.ui.setStatus() are eligible.
    "pinnedStatus": ["subagent", "access-denied"]
  }
}

Commands

Command	Description
/editor-shell:status	Show debug info: pinned config, all extension statuses with their keys, cache totals

How it works

The default pi editor only draws a horizontal line above and below the input area (no side borders), and a separate footer renders the status bar. This extension replaces both — it wraps the built-in CustomEditor, renders it at width - 2, wraps every line with left/right glyphs, and embeds the status bar information (extension statuses) below the shell. The total width is unchanged. Border color follows pi's borderColor (which encodes thinking level / bash mode), so the shell stays semantically consistent and reacts to theme changes automatically.

Installation

pi install npm:@d3ara1n/pi-editor-shell

Or add to ~/.pi/agent/settings.json:

{
  "extensions": [
    "/absolute/path/to/pi-extensions/packages/pi-editor-shell"
  ]
}

Caveats

• Mutually exclusive with other editor-replacing extensions (border-status-editor, rainbow-editor, modal-editor, …). Disable those when enabling this one — setEditorComponent is last-writer-wins.
• When the content scrolls, pi's native ↑ N more / ↓ N more indicators are replaced by the embedded status text (status takes precedence).
• Falls back to the default editor below MIN_WIDTH (20 columns).

Dependencies

• @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
• @earendil-works/pi-tui