pi-terse-tools

Lean extensions for the Pi coding agent. A monorepo of two npm packages, each independently installable. Both stay close to pi's native TUI — same colors, backgrounds, and success/error states — just compressed to what matters.

pi-terse-tools — every tool call in two lines

Pi's default tool output floods the transcript. This extension re-renders the built-in tools (read, write, edit, bash, grep, find, ls) as compact two-line blocks: readable tool input on line 1, a colored result summary on line 2. Bash keeps a flattened prefix of its live output beside the status instead of wasting that second line. It leaves the model-facing tool schemas and execution arguments unchanged. Press C-o on a block to expand the full output.

Install with pi's package manager (requires pi >= 0.80):

pi install npm:pi-terse-tools

Or try it for a single run without installing: pi -e npm:pi-terse-tools.

No configuration. Details in packages/terse.

pi-terse-web — lean webfetch + websearch

Two tools, each one network call: webfetch turns a URL into clean markdown, websearch returns Exa results as {title, url, snippet}. No fallback cascades, no SSRF DNS gymnastics — the lean opposite of heavier web-access extensions.

Install with pi's package manager:

pi install npm:pi-terse-web

Or try it for a single run: pi -e npm:pi-terse-web. webfetch works out of the box; websearch needs an Exa API key:

export EXA_API_KEY=...

Design rationale and coexistence with pi-web-access: packages/web.

Develop

npm install
npm test

Node >= 22.19.0. Test files are plain .ts run directly via node --test (no build step). docs/ holds shared decision records.

License

MIT.