pi-wierd-statusline

Minimal Tokyo Night Storm statusline for pi. Renders a compact one-line status row above the editor, with the editor's own top/bottom borders stripped so the two visually merge into a single cluster.

Sections (each appears only when relevant):

• Model — 🤖 plus the active model's display name (e.g. Opus 4.7). Claude and anthropic/ prefixes are stripped for brevity.
• Thinking — 🧠 plus the current thinking level (min/low/med/high/xhigh), shown only for reasoning-capable models. Honors the model's thinkingLevelMap so providers can override the label.
• Path — up to the last three segments of cwd with a …/ prefix. Parent segments in gray, current directory in purple.
• Git — branch name plus a clean/dirty marker (✓ green / ✗ red). Hidden when not in a git repo.
• Context — percentage of usable context window before autocompaction (33k buffer reserved), printed as pct%: used[▓░░░]remaining with a colored progress bar. Color shifts green → yellow → red as you approach the threshold.
• Cost — session total in USD when greater than zero.
• Tokens — cumulative session input/output and cache read/write counters: ↑input ↓output R{cacheRead} W{cacheWrite}.
• Stash — 📦 N showing how many prompts are saved in the stash history (see below). Hidden when empty.

Inspired by pi-powerline-footer by @nicobailon — the original brought the statusline-as-footer idea to pi. This extension is a from-scratch take that focuses on just that footer (skipping the bash mode, working vibes, and welcome overlay pieces).

Editor stash

Press Alt+S to save the editor's contents and clear the input, type a quick prompt, and the stashed text auto-restores when the agent finishes — but only if the editor is empty at that point (otherwise the stash is preserved and a notification reminds you to clear and Alt+S to restore). Pressing Alt+S again with text in the editor updates the live stash slot. The statusline's 📦 N indicator reflects the current stash-history depth.

Every stash is pushed onto a persisted MRU history (12 entries max, stored at ~/.pi/agent/wierd-statusline/stash-history.json). Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open a picker overlay; navigate with arrows, Enter inserts the selected entry (replace/append/cancel prompt if the editor is non-empty), d deletes the selected entry, and Esc cancels.

Fixed editor cluster

In interactive TUI sessions, chat/feed content scrolls above the fixed statusline, editor, and any extension-supplied widget rows. Scroll chat with the mouse wheel, PageUp/PageDown, Command+PageUp/PageDown, or Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down; the editor stays put. Drag text to copy it, drag a selection to the viewport edge to scroll, double-click a line to select it, and right-click to open the terminal context menu. Use /wierd-status fixed-editor off for pi's regular scrolling layout, or /wierd-status mouse-scroll off for native terminal selection.

Install

pi install npm:pi-wierd-statusline

Restart pi to activate.

Commands

• /wierd-status on — enable the statusline
• /wierd-status off — disable, restoring pi's default editor and footer
• /wierd-status toggle — toggle
• /wierd-status footer on|off|toggle — show/hide pi's built-in footer beneath the editor (hidden by default)
• /wierd-status fixed-editor on|off|toggle — keep the editor cluster fixed at the bottom while chat scrolls above (on by default)
• /wierd-status mouse-scroll on|off|toggle — enable wheel/drag scrolling and selection inside the fixed editor (on by default)

Shortcuts

• Alt+S — stash editor text / restore stash when editor is empty
• Ctrl+Alt+S — open the stash history picker