@mrclrchtr/supi-context

Adds context-capacity observability to the pi coding agent.

Install

pi install npm:@mrclrchtr/supi-context

For local development:

pi install ./packages/supi-context

Two concepts, two surfaces

• A Context Pressure Snapshot is a small point-in-time capacity reading for deciding whether a session has room for another operation.
• A Context Usage Report is a diagnostic account of where the session's context is spent.

Human: Context Usage Report

In interactive TUI mode, pi gets these commands:

• /supi-context — render a report with guideline and tool previews
• /supi-context full — render the same report with complete guideline and tool lists

The command appends a durable supi-context custom entry and uses a dedicated entry renderer. The report remains in the transcript but never enters LLM context.

Agent: Context Pressure Snapshot

supi_context is agent-callable when enabled in configuration. It defaults to a one-line, constant-shape JSON Context Pressure Snapshot:

interface ContextPressureSnapshot {
  modelName: string;
  contextWindow: number | null;
  usedTokens: number;
  usagePercent: number | null;
  compactionEnabled: boolean;
  reserveTokens: number;
  headroomTokens: number | null;
  pressurePercent: number | null;
  compacted: boolean;
  approximationNote: string | null;
}

Use supi_context({ mode: "full" }) only when diagnostic attribution is needed. Full mode returns compact JSON for the Context Usage Report. If it exceeds Pi's normal tool-output limits, it returns a small valid-JSON envelope with the path to a temporary file containing the complete report.

The tool TUI never shows raw agent JSON: concise results render as a dense snapshot that expands into its metrics; full results expand into the diagnostic report.

What the report shows

The Context Usage Report includes:

• model name, context-window size, used tokens, usage percentage, pressure percentage, and Headroom
• the effective Compaction reserve and factual presence of compaction on the active branch
• approximation or pending-usage notes when exact usage is not available
• a visual usage bar and attribution-category breakdown for system prompt, messages, tool calls, tool results, and other context
• system-prompt composition, instruction/context files, skills, guideline sources, tool definitions, injected files, and registered provider sections

Configuration

The human /supi-context command needs no configuration.

To enable the agent-callable supi_context tool, set agentToolEnabled to true in your supi config:

{
  "supi-context": {
    "agentToolEnabled": true
  }
}

Or toggle it via /supi-settings → Context → Agent Tool, then /reload.

The tool is disabled by default and requires a /reload or restart after toggling.

Notes

• The extension caches the latest systemPromptOptions from before_agent_start. If those are missing or incomplete, it backfills context files and skills from the current system prompt.
• Exact usage comes from Pi's current context-usage data when available. Otherwise the extension estimates usage and preserves an approximation note.
• The Active Context Limit is the auto-compaction threshold while auto-compaction is enabled, otherwise the raw model context window. Headroom and pressure use that limit.

Source

• src/context.ts — surface registration and cached prompt-option handling
• src/capacity.ts — shared capacity analysis and snapshot shape
• src/analysis.ts — diagnostic attribution and report data assembly
• src/entry-renderer.ts — TUI-only custom-entry renderer for the human command
• src/format*.ts and src/report-component.ts — Context Usage Report rendering
• src/snapshot-component.ts — compact, width-safe snapshot rendering
• src/tool/guidance.ts, src/tool/output.ts, and src/tool/render.ts — agent-tool guidance, safe full JSON output, and tool rendering

Tests live under __tests__/unit/.