pi-sidebar-tui

OpenCode-style sidebar TUI extension for pi coding agent.

Displays a real-time sidebar panel inside the pi terminal UI showing session metrics, todo tracking, workspace status, and connected MCP servers — inspired by OpenCode sidebar.

Features

Session Panel

• Session title (auto-inferred from first user message with LLM fallback, or manually set)
• Session elapsed time (updated every 30 seconds)
• Active tool indicator with live elapsed timer
• Current model name with thinking level (think:high, think:medium, etc.)
• Context window usage: tokens / max_window (pct%) — fill bar escalates color by usage and by pace
• Context estimate: left ≈Nt — turns remaining until the window fills at recent growth rate (∞ when flat, — until enough data); colored muted ≥20t / accent 5–19t / warning red <5t
• Auto-compact status indicator
• Token input/output totals + session cost
• Cache hit percentage + turn count
• Live tokens-per-second (tok/s) via 2-second sliding window
• Session ID display
• Theme-aware colors (delegates to pi Theme API when available)

MCP Servers Panel

• Connected MCP server status with connection indicators
• Tool count per server (direct/total)
• Token estimate per server

Todos Panel

• Parses todo items from tool calls (todo tool)
• Status glyphs: ○ pending, ● in progress, ✓ completed
• Progress counter: Todos (2/5)
• Sub-action annotations for in-progress items

Workspace Panel

• Git branch with ahead/untracked counts
• Dirty file listing with diff stats (+N/-N)
• Current working directory at bottom of sidebar
• Auto-refreshes on write operations (write/edit/bash/computer tools)

Installation

pi install npm:pi-sidebar-tui

The extension auto-registers via the "pi" field in package.json.

Usage

The sidebar activates automatically when a session starts. Toggle visibility with:

/sidebar-tui on       # Enable sidebar
/sidebar-tui off      # Disable sidebar
/sidebar-tui width 45 # Set sidebar width (10-120)

Ctrl+Shift+S           # Toggle sidebar on/off (rebind in ~/.pi/agent/keybindings.json)

Set custom session title:

/session-title "My feature implementation"

Configuration

Env var	Default	Description
PI_SIDEBAR_BG	(unset)	Paint the sidebar with an opaque #rrggbb background. Unset (default) leaves the terminal background untouched so terminal transparency shows through. Set e.g. PI_SIDEBAR_BG="#000000" to hide scroll flash on opaque terminals.

Requirements

• pi coding agent >= 0.74.0
• pi-tui >= 0.74.0

Architecture

pi-sidebar-tui/
├── index.ts              # Extension entry point, event handlers, state management
├── sidebar.ts            # Main sidebar renderer (composes all panels)
├── compositor.ts         # Terminal compositor for right-column layout
├── colors.ts             # ANSI color helpers, formatting utilities
├── types.ts              # TypeScript type definitions
├── mcp.ts                # MCP server discovery and status
├── workspace.ts          # Git workspace state tracking
├── panels/
│   ├── session.ts        # Session metrics panel
│   ├── todos.ts          # Todo tracking panel
│   ├── workspace.ts      # Git workspace status panel
│   └── mcp.ts            # MCP server status panel
├── tests/
│   ├── panels.test.ts    # Panel rendering tests
│   └── sidebar.test.ts   # Sidebar rendering tests
└── package.json

How It Works

The extension hooks into pi's event system (session_start, tool_call, message_end, turn_end, etc.) to track state and renders a right-column sidebar using a custom SidebarCompositor that:

1. Narrows terminal.columns so pi renders main content in the left portion
2. Paints the sidebar in the rightmost columns after each pi render cycle
3. Uses synchronized output (\x1b[?2026h) to prevent rendering artifacts
4. Saves/restores cursor position (DECSC/DECRC) around paint

Development

npm install
npm test

Publish on npm

npm login
npm publish

License

MIT