pi-thinking-hotkeys

Codex-style directional hotkeys for changing pi's active reasoning level.

Shortcut	Action
Alt+,	Decrease thinking effort
Alt+.	Increase thinking effort

[!NOTE] On macOS, Alt is the Option (⌥) key.

Install

pi install npm:pi-thinking-hotkeys

Or from git:

pi install git:github.com/masonc15/pi-thinking-hotkeys

Verify with /help — the shortcuts appear under Extensions.

Usage

Press the shortcut while the editor is focused. Levels move along:

off → minimal → low → medium → high → xhigh → max

• Levels the active model doesn't support are skipped.
• xhigh and max appear only when the active model explicitly advertises them.
• At a bound, the shortcut is a no-op and pi shows a notification.
• Non-reasoning models stay at off.

Pi's model display continues to show the current level.

Terminal support

The shortcuts need Kitty keyboard protocol or xterm modifyOtherKeys, both of which pi enables when the terminal supports them. Some terminals and tmux setups instead send the legacy ESC , / ESC . sequences, which pi's key parser does not currently decode as alt+, / alt+.. To check what your setup sends:

npm run check:keys

Development

npm install
npm run check        # typecheck + tests
pi --no-extensions -e .

License

MIT