pi-response-duration

Show how long completed Pi agent responses took in the TUI transcript.

Packages

Package details

extension

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

npm repohome report
$ pi install npm:pi-response-duration
Package
pi-response-duration
Version
1.0.1
Published
Oct 25, 2026
Downloads
472/mo · 472/wk
Author
tech-msc
License
MIT
Types
extension
Size
15 KB
Dependencies
0 dependencies · 2 peers
Pi manifest JSON
{
  "image": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tech-msc/pi-response-duration/main/assets/worked-underline.png",
  "extensions": [
    "./index.ts"
  ]
}

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README

Pi Response Duration

A small Pi extension that appends the elapsed time to the transcript after a long, completed user response.

Example

Pi transcript showing the response duration annotation

Behavior

  • Measures from before_agent_start until Pi is about to settle the run. This includes the agent's turns and tool work, rather than only model-generation time.
  • Adds an entry only for completed responses that took more than 30 seconds.
  • Does not add entries for aborted or failed runs, or outside the interactive TUI.
  • Rounds up to whole seconds (31s, 2m 4s) and shows the local time using the system locale.
  • The annotation is a custom transcript entry and is not sent back to the model as conversation context.

Install

Install the published npm package with:

pi install npm:pi-response-duration

For a manual personal install, copy this directory to ~/.pi/agent/extensions/response-duration/. Pi discovers the package manifest and loads index.ts automatically on startup. Restart Pi after installing or moving it.

Alternatively, from a checkout containing this package, install the local path with:

pi install ./response-duration

Development

Run the tests with Node's built-in test runner:

npm test

Preview the npm archive without publishing:

npm pack --dry-run

Package metadata

The published npm package is pi-response-duration. It uses the MIT license. Pi provides @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent and @earendil-works/pi-tui at runtime; they are intentionally declared as peer dependencies rather than bundled runtime dependencies.