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What Changed

Adds pi as a provider, driven through pi --mode rpc.

It follows the existing provider stack rather than adding a pi-specific path:

  • apps/server/src/provider/pi/ — a typed subset of pi's RPC commands and events, a JSONL client with id correlation, a pure mapper from pi events to ProviderRuntimeEvent, and a T3 extension that bridges approvals and MCP.
  • PiDriver / PiAdapter / PiProvider — driver, adapter, health check, model catalog, and commands discovered from the running pi rather than hard-coded.
  • PiTextGenerationpi -p structured output for titles and summaries.
  • Hooks — contracts (settings, model, providerRuntime), builtInDrivers, the serverSettings opt-in lists, the settings card and icons on web, the mobile provider icon.
  • Docs — docs/user/providers-pi.md plus the provider lists.

PiDriver mirrors GrokDriver: static manual maintenance capabilities via resolveMaintenance(), the shared makeProviderSettingsSchema, CustomModelSetting for custom models. Approvals, thinking levels, and model selection route through the existing provider flows. Sessions are torn down on startup and send failures instead of being left half-initialized.

Why

Requested in #402, which ran from March to August with several independent implementations and no landing one.

I know the position on this. #4355 was closed with "we're not adding providers right now. we'll reconsider this after our new orchestrator has shipped #2829", and #2829 is still open. This PR is offered as a ready reference rather than a request for immediate review. Close it if the timing is wrong and it costs you nothing; the branch is maintained against main and can be reopened or rebased whenever the orchestrator lands.

On size: this is ~5,000 lines, and it is roughly what a provider costs here. It adds no new provider architecture, no server-side slash command parsing, no synthetic thinking levels, and no fake fallback models.

Testing

  • PiRuntimeEvents.test.ts pins the event mapping, including compaction start/end and usage.
  • PiAdapter.test.ts covers session lifecycle, approvals, a hung prompt, and a steer joining a running turn and completing once.
  • PiProvider.test.ts covers health, model catalog, and command discovery.
  • PiTextGeneration.test.ts covers structured output.
  • apps/server/scripts/pi-mock-rpc.ts is a mock pi so none of the above needs a real binary.

Run against this branch:

  • tsgo --noEmit in packages/contracts, apps/server, apps/web — clean
  • tsc --noEmit in apps/mobile — clean
  • vp test run on the six files above plus serverSettings.test.ts and ProviderRegistry.test.ts — 120 passing
  • vp lint and vp fmt --check on all pi files — clean

UI Changes

No new UI surfaces or components. pi reuses the existing provider settings card, provider picker, and chat rendering. The only additions are a monochrome PiIcon matching the sibling provider icons and a pi entry in the provider lists. pi is hidden unless it is installed and enabled, like every other opt-in provider.

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused — no. It is one concern, but it is ~5,000 lines. Flagging that honestly rather than ticking it.
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes — n/a, no new UI surfaces, see above
  • I included a video for animation/interaction changes — n/a, no motion or interaction changes

Note

Add pi provider with RPC client, adapter, driver, and settings

  • Adds a full pi provider stack: an Effect-based RPC client (PiRpcClient.ts) that spawns a pi child process, handles JSONL framing, correlated requests with 60s default timeout, fire-and-forget notifications, and scoped cleanup
  • Adds protocol types and guards (PiRpcProtocol.ts), runtime event mapping (PiRuntimeEvents.ts), extension materialization (piExtension.ts), the provider adapter (PiAdapter.ts), and driver (PiDriver.ts)
  • Provider health checks (PiProvider.ts) probe via CLI version check then short-lived RPC session, reporting disabled, missing, timed-out, failed, warning, ready, or unauthenticated states
  • Adds settings schemas (settings.ts) defaulting pi to disabled, UI metadata with an Early Access badge, and a pi mock RPC (pi-mock-rpc.ts) for tests
  • Risk: ServerSettings decoding now accepts a pi entry in the providers map with an empty-object default; existing settings files without a pi key are unaffected but any unknown pi fields will fail decoding per the new schema
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README.md — 0 comments posted, 1 evaluated, 1 filtered
  • line 24: The new pi setup instructions end after /login, but a fresh PiSettings configuration defaults enabled to false; checkPiProviderStatus then reports it as disabled and does not spawn or expose pi. Thus users who follow this newly added installation guidance cannot use the provider until they discover and manually enable it in T3 Code Settings. Add the required opt-in step. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
apps/server/scripts/pi-mock-rpc.ts — 0 comments posted, 1 evaluated, 1 filtered
  • line 337: abort emits terminal events but leaves pendingUi and the suspended runPrompt alive. If an extension_ui_response for the outstanding dialog arrives after abort, it resolves the old prompt, which then emits tool_execution_*, turn_end, agent_end, and a second agent_settled after the aborted turn was already settled. This makes the RPC mock violate its one-terminal-run lifecycle and can mask or destabilize abort-with-pending-approval tests. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcClient.ts — 0 comments posted, 2 evaluated, 2 filtered
  • line 178: The stderr fold returns the unterminated final fragment as rest, but line 178 immediately discards it with Effect.ignore. If pi writes an error without a trailing newline (a common process-stderr form), consumeStderr never receives or records that diagnostic, leaving failed sessions without their most useful error output. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
  • line 188: On process exit this handler ends only events. It leaves stderrLines and stdinQueue open, while the adapter's consumeStderr fiber and the Stream.fromQueue(stdinQueue) writer remain blocked on them. watchExit removes the session without closing its scope, so each normally or unexpectedly exited session retains these suspended fibers and queues until provider shutdown, accumulating resources across sessions. [ Cross-file consolidated ]
apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRuntimeEvents.ts — 3 comments posted, 5 evaluated, 1 filtered
  • line 514: extension_error events are valid without an error string, yet this guard discards them instead of emitting the warning with the already implemented "unknown" fallback. Extension failures that omit a message are therefore invisible to runtime-event consumers. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
docs/user/providers-pi.md — 0 comments posted, 3 evaluated, 3 filtered
  • line 31: The statement that project-local .pi/ resources load only after using /trust is false for T3's non-interactive RPC sessions. pi documents that --mode rpc also loads them when global defaultProjectTrust is always (or when --approve is supplied), without a saved /trust decision, so users can be misled about why project resources are active. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
  • line 50: This implies any pi extension's multiple-choice UI becomes a T3 question card, but the adapter only recognizes the private t3-question title envelope emitted by the ask_user integration. A normal extension calling ctx.ui.select is treated as an unknown dialog and cancelled, so its question never reaches the user; the docs should limit the claim to compatible extensions such as ask_user. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]
  • line 61: The pi -r instruction does not work after configuring Agent directory unless the user also exports the same PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR in that terminal. T3 passes that variable only to its pi child processes, while a normal pi -r uses the default ~/.pi/agent config/session directory, so it will not show the T3 sessions stored under the configured directory. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added early-access support for the pi provider.
    • Configure pi’s executable, agent directory, launch arguments, custom models, thinking levels, and authentication.
    • Use pi in conversations with streaming responses, tool approvals, user questions, session resume, steering, and token usage.
    • Added pi support for generating commit messages, branch names, pull request content, and thread titles.
    • Added pi icons throughout the web and mobile interfaces.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup and usage guidance for pi, including installation, permissions, models, extensions, skills, and limitations.

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Adds pi (https://pi.dev) as a provider, driven through `pi --mode rpc`.

The driver mirrors GrokDriver: static manual maintenance capabilities, the
shared provider settings schema, and no bespoke orchestration path. The
adapter maps pi's RPC events onto the canonical ProviderRuntimeEvent set,
so the server, web, and mobile clients need only the usual per-provider
registrations.

- apps/server/src/provider/pi/: RPC protocol subset, JSONL client, a pure
  event mapper, and a T3 extension that bridges approvals and MCP.
- PiDriver / PiAdapter / PiProvider: driver, adapter, health check, model
  catalog, and dynamically discovered commands.
- PiTextGeneration: `pi -p` structured output for titles and summaries.
- Hooks: contracts (settings, model, providerRuntime), builtInDrivers,
  serverSettings opt-in lists, icons and settings cards on web, the mobile
  provider icon.
- Docs: docs/user/providers-pi.md plus provider list updates.

Approvals, thinking levels, and model selection route through the existing
provider flows. Sessions are torn down on startup and send failures rather
than left half-initialized.

Model: claude-opus-5 via pi
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The pull request adds the pi provider across contracts, settings, RPC transport, runtime event mapping, server adapters, text generation, web and mobile interfaces, tests, and documentation.

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Pi provider integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contracts and settings
packages/contracts/src/model.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts, apps/server/src/provider/builtInDrivers.ts
Adds pi provider identifiers, settings schemas, defaults, persistence, runtime source support, and built-in driver registration.
RPC protocol and runtime mapping
apps/server/src/provider/pi/*
Adds typed RPC commands and events, JSONL process transport, request correlation, lifecycle handling, and canonical runtime event mapping.
Provider execution
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/PiDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/pi/piExtension.ts, apps/server/scripts/pi-mock-rpc.ts
Adds pi sessions, model discovery, approvals, questions, MCP bridging, steering, resume cursors, health checks, extension materialization, and test RPC scenarios.
Text generation
apps/server/src/textGeneration/PiTextGeneration.ts, apps/server/src/textGeneration/PiTextGeneration.test.ts
Adds print-mode generation for commit messages, pull request content, branch names, and thread titles.
Product surfaces and documentation
apps/web/src/components/..., apps/mobile/src/components/ProviderIcon.tsx, docs/..., README.md, AGENTS.md
Adds pi icons, settings metadata, search terms, installation guidance, permission notes, and provider documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2360b

The Pi provider icon now uses the official filled mark on web and mobile. No merge-blocking current-head risk remains.

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apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcClient.ts (1)

217-224: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the pending entry when request is interrupted.

When the request fiber is interrupted during Deferred.await, pending can retain the request until the session closes. Add Effect.onInterrupt around the await.

♻️ Proposed cleanup on interruption
       const response = yield* Deferred.await(deferred).pipe(
+        Effect.onInterrupt(() => Effect.sync(() => pending.delete(id))),
         Effect.timeoutOrElse({
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcClient.ts` around lines 217 - 224, Update
the await path in the PiRpcClient request function to attach an
Effect.onInterrupt handler that removes the request’s id from pending. Preserve
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.test.ts`:
- Around line 263-273: Update the event assertions in the affected PiAdapter and
PiRuntimeEvents tests to require each expected event before inspecting its
payload: assert that tool, resolved, opened, ended[0], and failed[0] are
defined, then perform the payload assertions unconditionally rather than inside
optional type guards.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.ts`:
- Around line 549-580: Update watchExit to close ctx.scope after publishing the
session.exited event, ensuring the close runs from a fiber not owned by
ctx.scope so its PiRpcClient finalizer and consumeStderr fiber terminate even
after sessions.delete removes access to the context.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/pi/piExtension.ts`:
- Around line 157-171: Update mcpRequest to pass an AbortSignal.timeout signal
to fetch, applying the timeout consistently to both initialization and bridged
tools/call requests while preserving the existing response and error handling.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRuntimeEvents.ts`:
- Line 439: Update PiMappingState to store the item ID created for
compaction_start, then reuse that stored ID when emitting the compaction
completion event instead of calling state.nextSyntheticId(). Clear the stored ID
after completion, and add a test asserting that compaction_start and completion
events have matching itemId values.

In `@apps/server/src/textGeneration/PiTextGeneration.ts`:
- Line 49: Add the --no-context-files flag alongside --no-approve in the Pi
print-mode argument configuration to disable AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md discovery,
and add a regression assertion in the PiTextGeneration tests verifying the flag
is passed.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcClient.ts`:
- Around line 217-224: Update the await path in the PiRpcClient request function
to attach an Effect.onInterrupt handler that removes the request’s id from
pending. Preserve the existing write-error cleanup and normal response handling.

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  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiProvider.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiProvider.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/Services/PiAdapter.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/builtInDrivers.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcClient.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRpcProtocol.ts
  • apps/server/src/provider/pi/PiRuntimeEvents.test.ts
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  • apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts
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  • docs/internals/providers.md
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Comment thread apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.test.ts
Comment thread apps/server/src/provider/Layers/PiAdapter.ts
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Comment thread apps/server/src/textGeneration/PiTextGeneration.ts
- A rejected prompt left its turn installed as the session's active one
  with nothing to settle it, so the next turn inherited its settle
  signal. The turn now ends as failed, carrying pi's own message, and
  work pi is still doing gets a turn of its own.
- A pi process that exited on its own never closed its session scope,
  leaking the RPC client finalizer and the stderr reader. watchExit now
  runs outside that scope and closes it, like stopSession does.
- compaction_start and compaction_end minted different item ids, so the
  compaction row opened and never closed. The id is held in the mapping
  state and reused.
- compaction_end without a result and auto_retry_start without an
  attempt were dropped by presence guards that ran before the code
  handling exactly those cases.
- Print-mode text generation read the user's AGENTS.md, since
  --no-approve only distrusts project-local pi files. Added
  --no-context-files.
- The MCP bridge called fetch with no timeout, so an endpoint that
  accepted and never answered parked a tool call forever.
- Test assertions nested inside optional type guards passed when the
  event was missing.
Replaces the hand-drawn Greek pi glyph with the official mark from pi.dev in the web and mobile provider icons.
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