pi-tilth

Pi extension that registers tilth as a native tool for the LLM.

Tilth is an AST-aware code reading CLI powered by tree-sitter. It replaces read, grep, find, and ls with a single smart tool that understands code structure — showing definitions first, resolving callee chains, and supporting glob-based file listing plus slash-wrapped regex content search.

Requirements

• tilth CLI installed and available in PATH

Install

pi install npm:pi-tilth

Or from GitHub:

pi install https://github.com/sting8k/pi-tilth

Or try without installing:

pi -e https://github.com/sting8k/pi-tilth

Features

• Tool registration — tilth available as a native Pi tool with structured params (query, scope, section, budget, map)
• Query modes — query can be a file path, symbol, glob, plain text, or slash-wrapped regex content search like /handle(Auth|Login)/
• Regex caveat — upstream tilth supports /<pattern>/ regex content search, but some regex patterns that contain glob-like characters may still be classified as globs first
• Mode toggle — /tilth [on|off] enables/disables tilth mode, removing built-in tools when active
• Persistent config — state saved to ~/.pi/agent/settings.json under "pi-tilth" key
• Auto-enable — restores tilth mode on session start based on saved config
• Styled rendering — custom renderCall/renderResult with badge, bold params, and line count summary
• Nudge hints — when tilth mode is on, appends a [tilth] hint to bash tool output if the command uses rg, grep, find, fd, cat, etc., reminding the agent to prefer tilth
• Remote command detection — automatically skips nudge hints for remote commands (ssh, sshpass, scp, rsync, docker exec, kubectl exec) since tilth only works locally

Commands

Command	Description
/tilth	Enable tilth mode (default)
/tilth on	Enable tilth mode
/tilth off	Disable tilth mode, restore built-in tools