pi-provider-litellm

[!NOTE] This extension requires pi and a running LiteLLM proxy.

Pi agent extension that auto-discovers and registers models, MCP tools, and skills from a LiteLLM proxy.

Features

• Model discovery — queries /health and /model/info endpoints to discover available models, registers them under the litellm provider with cost, context window, and capability metadata
• MCP tools — discovers tools from LiteLLM's MCP REST gateway (/mcp-rest/tools/list) and registers them as pi tools with JSON schema to TypeBox mapping
• Skills management — skill_list, skill_use, skill_register, skill_enable, and skill_disable tools for managing LiteLLM skills
• Skills injection — injects enabled skills as structured context into the agent's system prompt on session start, with 60-second caching

All discovery runs in parallel with a 30s timeout. Each step fails gracefully — a failed model discovery won't block MCP tools or skills.

Installation

# From npm (once published)
pi install npm:@danmademe/pi-provider-litellm

# From local path
pi install npm:@danmademe/pi-provider-litellm

Configuration

Provide your LiteLLM proxy URL and API key via environment variables or settings.

Environment variables (recommended)

export LITELLM_URL="https://your-litellm-proxy.example.com"
export LITELLM_KEY="sk-your-api-key"

Optional: override the provider name (defaults to litellm):

export LITELLM_PROVIDER_ID="my-proxy"

Settings file

Add to ~/.pi/agent/settings.json:

{
  "pi-provider-litellm": {
    "url": "https://your-litellm-proxy.example.com",
    "token": "sk-your-api-key"
  }
}

Optional: override the provider name:

{
  "pi-provider-litellm": {
    "url": "https://your-litellm-proxy.example.com",
    "token": "sk-your-api-key",
    "providerId": "my-proxy"
  }
}

Environment variables take precedence over the settings file.

Enabling models

Models registered by this extension use the configured provider ID (default: litellm). To include them in your model cycling, add them to enabledModels in settings.json:

{
  "enabledModels": [
    "litellm/qwen/qwen3.6-27b",
    "litellm/anthropic/claude-sonnet"
  ]
}

[!TIP] The model ID in pi is <providerId>/<model_name>, where <providerId> defaults to litellm and <model_name> is the ID as reported by your LiteLLM proxy (e.g., qwen/qwen3.6-27b, anthropic/claude-sonnet).

Tools

Once loaded, the extension registers the following tools:

Tool	Description
skill_list	List all available skills on the proxy
skill_use	Fetch full content of a skill by name
skill_register	Register a new skill from a git repository
skill_enable	Enable a skill by name
skill_disable	Disable a skill by name
mcp_<server>_<tool>	Auto-discovered MCP tools from the proxy

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck
npm run test:run

License

MIT