pi-dumb

Context rot indicator for Pi — shows token usage with research-backed degradation warnings

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Install pi-dumb from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest.

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$ pi install npm:pi-dumb
Package
pi-dumb
Version
0.2.0
Published
Mar 30, 2026
Downloads
46/mo · 9/wk
Author
hiasomat
License
MIT
Types
extension
Size
5.2 KB
Dependencies
0 dependencies · 1 peer
Pi manifest JSON
{
  "extensions": [
    "index.ts"
  ],
  "image": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hiasinho/pi-dumb/main/screenshot.png"
}

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README

pi-dumb 🧠

Degradation Usage Meter Bar — a context rot indicator for Pi

Shows your current token usage in the status bar with research-backed color warnings for when your LLM is getting dumber.

Why?

LLM quality degrades based on absolute token count, not context window percentage. A 200k-window model at 100k tokens performs just as poorly as a 1M-window model at 100k tokens.

Research:

  • Chroma (2025): All 18 frontier models degrade as context grows
  • Liu et al. (Stanford): 30%+ accuracy drop from "lost-in-the-middle" effect
  • Attention dilution is quadratic: 100k tokens = 10 billion pairwise relationships

Thresholds

Icon Tokens Zone Meaning
🧠 0–30k Fresh Sweet spot — peak reliability
🟡 30–60k Warm Past recommended reset point
🔥 60–100k Hot Danger zone for coding tasks
💀 100k+ Rot Broadly degraded quality

Install

pi install npm:pi-dumb

What it looks like

After each turn, you'll see something like this in your status bar:

🧠 12.4k     # you're good
🟡 45k       # consider compacting
🔥 82k       # quality is dropping, compact soon
💀 142k      # you should have compacted yesterday

License

MIT