henyo-pi-web

Web search and content extraction tools for Pi.

Henyo means "genius" in Filipino — because Pi is sharp, and so are you.

Install

Ask your Pi agent:

Install the henyo-pi-web npm package

Or run directly:

pi install npm:henyo-pi-web

pi install automatically resolves npm dependencies (defuddle, jsdom) and registers the six web tools plus the web_tools loader — the tools are lazy and stay inactive until activated via web_tools or /web-tools.

Tools

search_ddg

General web search via DuckDuckGo. Use for news, articles, broad topics, general queries, and as a fallback when no specialized tool fits — keep queries focused and short. Don't use for specific programming errors (→ search_stackoverflow).

Parameters:

• query (string) — Search query (any topic or phrase)
• max (integer, default 10, 1–50) — Max results to return
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache

search_wikipedia

Encyclopedia knowledge via Wikipedia. Use for definitions, concepts, history — query with short topic names (e.g. "React (software)", "Kubernetes"), not full questions. Don't use for code errors (→ search_stackoverflow).

OpenSearch is prefix/title match — short topic names (e.g. "React (software)") work best; natural-language questions may return 0 results.

Parameters:

• query (string) — Short topic name (e.g. "React", "Kubernetes")
• max (integer, default 10, 1–50) — Max results to return
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache

search_stackoverflow

Programming Q&A via Stack Overflow. Use for error messages, code patterns, debugging, syntax, API usage — include the full error message and code pattern. Don't use for package lookups (→ search_npm).

Parameters:

• query (string) — Error message or code pattern
• max (integer, default 10, 1–50) — Max results to return
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache

search_npm

JavaScript package registry search. Use for package names, JS library functionality, dependency lookups — query short and specific (e.g. "react", "state machine"). Don't use for non-JS packages (pip, crates) (→ search_ddg).

Parameters:

• query (string) — Package name or functionality description
• max (integer, default 10, 1–50) — Max results to return
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache

search_github

Repository and source code search via GitHub. Use for repo names, library names, code patterns, issues, docs — short names, not full sentences. Don't use for package docs (→ search_npm).

Parameters:

• query (string) — Repo name or code pattern
• max (integer, default 10, 1–50) — Max results to return
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache

henyo_fetch

Extract clean readable content from any URL. Uses Defuddle-first extraction with Jina quality-check fallback. Handles Cloudflare protection, SPAs, GitHub raw files, JSON, plain text, and binary content detection (PDF, images, archives). Includes SSRF protection. Cached 1 hour.

Parameters:

• url (string) — URL to fetch
• timeout (integer, default 15000) — Timeout in ms (1000–60000)
• noCache (boolean, default false) — Skip cache
• headers (object, optional) — Custom HTTP headers, e.g. { "Authorization": "Bearer token" } (a custom User-Agent — or any header — is honored and overrides the built-in defaults)

Features:

• Content-type aware: handles HTML, JSON, plain text, and binary content
• On 401/403/503 (e.g. Cloudflare blocks), henyo_fetch automatically retries via the Wayback Machine; the result is tagged source: 'wayback' with the snapshot date and original URL. Disable with waybackEnabled: false.
• Smart truncation with configurable heading/content thresholds
• Oversized content returns metadata only (URL, title, source, cache path)
• Politeness delay between requests (configurable min/max)
• Retry with exponential backoff
• cached flag on cached results
• Error categories in details (errorCategory: ssrf, invalid-url, timeout, not-found, forbidden, bad-request, server-error, network, unknown)

TUI Features:

• Source badges — color-coded [defuddle], [jina], [github], [wayback], etc.
• Size labels — human-readable sizes (12.3 KB, 1.45 MB)
• Status indicators — [cached], [truncated], [oversized] badges
• Error cards — categorized errors with actionable messages
• Oversized content card — structured metadata with guidance (reduce threshold, check cache, fresh fetch)
• Collapsible content — press expand key to view full content, collapse to return to header

Activation

The six web tools are lazy: registered at load but inactive until activated for the session. The model activates them via the always-active web_tools tool (purely additive — once enabled, all six stay active); users can force activation with /web-tools. Activation is per-session: a new session starts with the web tools hidden again.

For routing, query shaping, and zero-results recovery, load the web-tools skill (see Bundled Skills).

Structure

henyo-pi-web/
├── package.json          # Extension manifest with pi entry point
├── index.ts              # Extension entry point (web tools, lazy web_tools loader, /web-tools, skills)
├── skills/
│   ├── deep-research/    # Multi-step autonomous research workflow with henyo-pi-web tools
│   │   └── references/   # Reference docs (evidence collection, source credibility, report templates)
│   └── web-tools/        # Routing + query shaping + zero-results protocol skill
├── shared/               # Shared utilities between tools
│   └── web-tools.ts      # Lazy activation core (WEB_TOOL_NAMES, hide/activate)
├── tests/                # Unit tests
├── vitest.config.ts      # Vitest test runner config
└── README.md

Bundled Skills

/skill:deep-research

A structured methodology for conducting deep, multi-step research — designed to work alongside henyo-pi-web's search and fetch tools. Guides the agent through planning, iterative retrieval, cross-source validation, and synthesis into a structured report with full citations. Use for complex research questions, competitive analysis, literature reviews, or any task requiring thorough investigation beyond a single search.

Workflow: Plan → Retrieve → Cross-Validate → Synthesize → Report

/skill:web-tools

Routing and usage guide for the six web research tools: the tool routing matrix, query-shaping rules with good/bad examples, the zero-results protocol (rephrase shorter → next tool → report; cooldown and provider-error handling), fallback chains, and runtime behavior (30-min search cache, 1-hour fetch cache, noCache, oversized-fetch envelope). Load before a multi-query research pass or when a web search returns zero or weak results.

Configuration

Optional settings go in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json (shared with the rest of pi's settings):

{
  "henyo-fetch": {
    "jinaEnabled": true,
    "waybackEnabled": true,
    "min-delay": 1000,
    "max-delay": 3000,
    "cache-max-files": 100,
    "heading-threshold": 40000,
    "content-threshold": 32000,
    "jina-timeout": 30000,
    "max-response-size": 10485760
  },
  "henyo-search": {
    "trace": true,
    "providers": { "stackoverflow": { "api-key": "SO-KEY" } }
  }
}

henyo-fetch config options:

Option	Type	Default	Description
jinaEnabled	boolean	true	Enable Jina Reader fallback
waybackEnabled	boolean	true	Auto-fallback to Wayback Machine on 401/403/503 blocks (result tagged source: 'wayback')
min-delay / max-delay	number	1000 / 3000	Politeness delay range (ms)
cache-max-files	number	100	Max cached files per directory
heading-threshold	number	40000	Heading size for smart truncation
content-threshold	number	32000	Max content size; oversize returns metadata only
jina-timeout	number	30000	Jina fallback timeout (ms)
max-response-size	number	10485760	Max response body size (bytes)

henyo-search config options:

Option	Type	Default	Description
trace	boolean | string[]	none	Trace logging for search and fetch: true traces everything, a list of names (duckduckgo, github, stackoverflow, npm, wikipedia, search_ddg, …, henyo-fetch) traces only those. Logs to /tmp/henyo-trace.log with rotation (10 MB, 3 backups).
providers.<name>.api-key	string	none	Per-provider API key — currently stackoverflow only. An SO StackExchange key raises the SO API quota from the shared anonymous limit to the per-user quota.

Per-provider blocks live under providers, keyed by provider name (stackoverflow, duckduckgo, wikipedia, npm, github) — provider names are reserved.

Tool contract: each search tool returns only its own provider's results. A provider failure surfaces as Provider error (…) or Search cooling down …, never as another provider's results; a genuine no-matches query returns 0 results. Rate-limit cooldowns (built-in per-provider defaults) are enforced and reported, not swallowed.

Trace logging

When henyo-search.trace is enabled, every outcome of the whole search and fetch process is appended to /tmp/henyo-trace.log — so "what happened to my search/fetch?" is answerable from one log:

• Search, tool layer (search_ddg, search_wikipedia, search_stackoverflow, search_npm, search_github): cache hits, cooldown blocks, provider errors, aborts, no-results, successes.
• Search, provider layer (duckduckgo, github, stackoverflow, npm, wikipedia): successes and failures — including the rate-limit events that set a cooldown (e.g. error="http-429", error="captcha", error="so-api-rate-limited"), logged at the moment the cooldown is written.
• Fetch (henyo-fetch): successes, cache hits, oversized/size-exceeded, and errors with the errorCategory (ssrf, network, timeout, …).

Example lines:

[2026-08-28T10:15:03.221Z] search_ddg query="react state management" duration=1204ms results=0 status="cooling-down" error="duckduckgo"
[2026-08-28T10:15:03.180Z] duckduckgo query="react state management" duration=1198ms results=0 status="error" error="http-429"
[2026-08-28T10:16:11.902Z] henyo-fetch query="https://example.com/docs" duration=2310ms results=48211 status="ok"

Line format: [timestamp] <provider|tool> query="…" duration=<ms> results=<n> status="…" [error="…"] [instance="…"]. For henyo-fetch, results= is the content size in bytes, not a result count.

status values: ok, cache-hit, cooling-down, no-results, oversized, size-exceeded, aborted, error. error= carries the rate-limit event tag on cooldown-setting events (http-429, http-403, captcha, so-api-rate-limited, so-api-http-<status>, scraper-unavailable), the fetch errorCategory on fetch failures, the blocking provider key on cooldown blocks, and provider error messages otherwise (e.g. No endpoint succeeded).

Requirements

• Node.js (ESM modules)
• Internet access

License

MIT