pi-toast

Ephemeral toast overlays for the Pi TUI. Shows a short message at a fixed terminal position and automatically dismisses it after a timeout.

Demo

Install

Global

pi install npm:pi-toast

Project-local

pi install -l npm:pi-toast

Usage

Interactive command

/toast Hello from Pi Toast
/toast --type success Saved successfully
/toast --type warning --position bottom-right Check your config
/toast --duration 5000 This stays for five seconds

LLM tool

The LLM can trigger toasts via the show_toast tool. This is useful when the agent wants to draw attention to something.

Programmatic API (other extensions)

Direct import:

import { showToast } from "./relative/path/to/toast/index.ts";

// Simple string message
await showToast(ctx, "Processing complete");

// With options
await showToast(ctx, {
  message: "Build succeeded!",
  variant: "success",
  durationMs: 3000,
  position: "top-right",
});

Event bus (no direct import needed):

pi.events.emit("toast:show", {
  message: "Operation complete",
  variant: "success",
  // durationMs, position, width are optional
});

Command

/toast [options] message

Options:

Option	Values	Default
--type, --variant	info, success, warning, error	info
--position, --pos	top-right, bottom-right	top-right
--duration, --duration-ms	milliseconds	2500
--width	columns, clamped 20–80	26

Scope

• Single toast overlay
• Themed border and icon
• Auto dismiss
• Position via Pi overlay anchors
• top-right slides from right to left
• bottom-right appears close above the input area and reveals from bottom to top
• Safe truncation for narrow terminals
• Programmatic API: direct import (showToast), event bus (toast:show), and LLM tool (show_toast)

How It Works

Pi Toast uses Pi's built-in overlay API:

ctx.ui.custom(component, {
  overlay: true,
  overlayOptions: { anchor: "top-right" },
});

This keeps the implementation inside Pi's renderer instead of writing raw ANSI escape sequences directly to stdout.

Links

• Source
• Issues