pi-packs

Umbrella Pi package that lets users install a curated set of individually published pi extensions through a single /install picker:

• pi-qq — ask side questions in an overlay.
• pi-chrome — drive your existing Chrome profile.
• pi-intercom — message other local Pi sessions.
• pi-linter — lint prompt drafts before sending.
• pi-bar — show model, thinking, and context in the footer.
• pi-prompt-shelf — shelve and restore prompt drafts.
• pi-caveman — make replies terse to save tokens.

Operating principles

1. Each extension is its own independently published npm package.
2. Each extension package that's developed in-tree lives under packages/ and is wired into the workspace through npm workspaces.
3. pi-packs is only an umbrella installer: it lets users install a curated set of extensions with one /install command.
4. pi-packs must not know or document implementation details of any individual extension. Extension-specific code, docs, skills, versioning, and release notes belong with that extension package.

Install

Bootstrap the umbrella once:

pi install npm:pi-packs

Or locally while developing:

npm install
pi install /Users/tianrendong/pi-packs

/install — interactive picker inside Pi

After the umbrella is loaded, run /install in any Pi session. A toggle dialog lets you pick which of the listed extensions to install as their own pi packages (so you can later update or remove them individually):

1. Pick scope: Global (~/.pi/agent/settings.json) or Project (.pi/settings.json).
2. All packages start selected. Use ↑/↓ to move and Space to toggle any package between install / skip.
3. Press Enter to install the selected packages, or Esc to cancel. For each install entry, pi first removes existing installs that would register conflicting extensions/commands (for example an old local pi-chrome checkout), then shells out to pi install [-l] npm:<name>.
4. If anything was installed, /install automatically reloads Pi so the new extensions are available immediately.

Extending the picker

The list of installable packages is declared in package.json under the "pi-packs" key, decoupled from npm dependencies so the umbrella can advertise packages it does not bundle:

{
  "pi-packs": {
    "installable": [
      { "name": "pi-qq", "description": "…" },
      { "name": "pi-chrome", "description": "…" }
    ]
  }
}

How this package works

pi-packs exposes only its installer command through the pi.extensions manifest:

{
  "pi": {
    "extensions": [
      "./extensions/install-command.ts"
    ]
  }
}

It intentionally does not auto-load the curated extensions. Loading bundled entrypoints here would conflict with users who already installed packages like pi-chrome directly. Use /install to install selected packages as first-class Pi packages instead.

The picker metadata lives in package.json under pi-packs.installable; the published umbrella intentionally has no package dependencies, so installing it does not install or auto-load the curated extensions.

Verify package contents

npm run pack:dry-run