OpenVibes

Install

Overview

Sick of all those boring coding agents that kill your vibe with their 'words', 'security', 'reviews', etc? OpenVibes has a solution for you! Enabled by Pi.

Features

• Real life genie to grant your coding wishes. Never have to rely on those pesky developers again!
• Saves time by masking AI output. Now you don't have to even pretend like you were going to read it!
• Displays an animation while running to keep you engaged and prevent you from spending your attention on more important things.
• Magic wand trail output when typing. To help you really feel the vibes.
• Ambient sounds and sound effects galore! To ensure you never get too comfortable during your...uh ... break.
• Shiny colors and rainbows, carefully engineered to offend at least one design reviewer.
• No security. Major productivity improvements by skipping that stupid shit.
• Zero tests. Yes, this is intentional. No, we don't care.

Demo

Install

Prerequisite: Pi must already be installed.

Install from npm with Pi:

pi install npm:@dmille56/openvibes

Or install from git:

pi install git:github.com/dmille56/OpenVibes

Or install from a local checkout:

pi install /path/to/OpenVibes

After install, start a Pi session (via pi command in a terminal) and use /openvibes to confirm the extension is loaded.

Usage

1. Start a Pi session with pi.
2. Run /openvibes status to check if the extension is still pretending to work for you.
3. Use /openvibes on to control the overlay and editor effects. (Don't worry about if there's an off command or not you don't need one of those).
4. Pick an animation with /openvibes select <name> if you want something other than the default.
5. Use /openvibes list anytime you add or change animations so discovery gets refreshed.

Commands

• /openvibes shows current status and help.
• /openvibes on enables the overlay and editor effects.
• /openvibes off disables the overlay and editor effects. (Warning we may not be friends anymore if you do this)
• /openvibes toggle switches between enabled and disabled.
• /openvibes mask [status|on|off|toggle] hides the evidence. I mean, controls assistant masking.
• /openvibes sound [status|on|off|toggle] controls cue playback.
• /openvibes ambient [status|on|off|toggle] controls ambient loops.
• /openvibes volume <0-1> adjusts playback volume. (0 = regret, 1 = no regrets.)
• /openvibes list refreshes animation discovery and lists available animations.
• /openvibes select <name> refreshes discovery and selects an animation by name.

Examples:

/openvibes status
/openvibes list
/openvibes select magic

Bundled Animations

The repo ships these bundled animations in images/:

• ai_genie
• magic
• rain

Config

OpenVibes settings are stored at:

${PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR:-~/.pi/agent}/openvibes/state.json

User-provided .milli files go in:

${PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR:-~/.pi/agent}/openvibes/animations/

Notes:

• Default settings are enabled: true and selectedAnimation: "ai_genie".
• Default masking is enabled.
• Default audio settings are soundEnabled: true, ambientEnabled: true, and volume: 1.0.
• User animations are discovered recursively.
• User animations override bundled animations with the same name.
• Only .milli files are discovered.

Notes

When enabled, assistant messages are replaced with a generated 0/1 mask in the visible session output, and the original assistant content is restored before the next model call.

While OpenVibes is enabled, the prompt editor shows a wand trail as you type. Printable keystrokes also trigger short-lived spark bursts, and the editor frame plus status line pulse by state: idle, typing, and agent-running. The selected animation name is shown in the editor footer.

OpenVibes also plays a restrained sound layer: a wake chime on session start, an ambient loop during agent runs, short tool ticks and success pings, and small cues for /openvibes on|off|toggle plus permission approvals/denials.

If pi-permission-system opens an approval dialog, the overlay steps out of the way until the request resolves.

Troubleshooting

• If the overlay does not appear, confirm the extension is enabled with /openvibes on and that the session has UI available.
• If an animation is missing, make sure the file ends in .milli and restart discovery with /openvibes list.
• If a user animation does not override a bundled one, verify the names match exactly.
• If you're questioning your life choices that led you to install this, that's not normal don't do that shit.