What is embed-pi-cli?

A guide for embedding the pi command-line agent into another command-line project. It covers shared configuration, custom extensions, running pi as a separate process, and connecting outside messaging channels.

It is for distributing pi settings, publishing project-specific extensions, running pi from CI or pipelines, and adapting channels such as Telegram, Matrix, or WhatsApp.

It helps developers choose an integration approach without copying or forking the agents-lab project, while keeping budgets and checks under central control.

embed-pi-cli — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by aretw0/agents-lab

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add aretw0/agents-lab --skill embed-pi-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aretw0/agents-lab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,111 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00045	$0.01111
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00444
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00222
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c2b5695d0f24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

embed-pi-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

packages/lab-skills/skills/embed-pi-cli/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Embed Pi CLI

Use este skill quando o objetivo for tornar um projeto CLI externo capaz de usar as capacidades do pi (orquestração, budget, observabilidade) sem forkar o agents-lab.

Escolha o modelo de integração

Antes de qualquer implementação, identifique qual modelo se aplica:

A — Config embedding (mais simples): o projeto só precisa de uma configuração pré-definida. Distribua .pi/settings.json no repositório.

B — Extension bundle (controle total): o projeto tem comportamentos customizados. Publique um pacote npm com extensões próprias.

C — Subprocess bridge (integração programática): o projeto orquestra pi de fora (CI, pipeline). Invoque pi como subprocesso e consuma sessões JSONL.

D — Message adapter (ex.: Telegram/Matrix/WhatsApp): canal externo envia comandos/steering para o control plane. Trate o canal como UI degradada: ele pode acionar loops, acompanhar checkpoints e receber resumos, mas não é autoridade canônica e não bypassa budget/delivery/verification gates.

Se não tiver certeza, comece com A e evolua para B se precisar de tools/commands próprios.

Referência canônica

Guia completo: docs/guides/pi-embedding-cli.md
Pesquisa técnica: docs/research/pi-embedding-ecosystem-survey.md
Exemplo de extension mínima: packages/pi-stack/extensions/claude-code-adapter.ts

Fluxo recomendado

1) Definir o modelo

Responda:

O projeto precisa de tools ou commands customizados? → B ou C
O projeto invoca pi de CI/automação? → C
Só precisa de configuração? → A

2) Implementar

Para modelo A:

Criar .pi/settings.json com packages + config de budgetPolicy e deliveryPolicy
Documentar no README: pré-requisitos, pi install, comando de início
Testar com PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR=/tmp/teste-isolado pi

Para modelo B:

Criar pacote com estrutura packages/meu-pi-stack/
Entry point exporta função default(pi: ExtensionAPI)
Extensions em extensions/, skills em skills/
Publicar como @meu-org/pi-stack e testar com pi install npm:@meu-org/pi-stack

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A c2b5695d0f24

Subscribe to this mod's changes

embed-pi-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository aretw0/agents-lab (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,111 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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