pi-cli-workspace

pi-cli-workspace is a skill for Claude Code from romiluz13/pi-agent-skills. It costs 214 tokens per session (3,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference and workspace guide for the Pi terminal coding agent. It covers commands, settings, sessions, skills, authentication, models, editors, and how Pi stores conversation history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Pi, discover or run skills, manage sessions and compaction, set up providers, choose models, and use its terminal editor features.
Why use it?
Pi has many workspace and session features whose behavior can be difficult to remember or verify from memory.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the pi-skill plugin — 11 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/romiluz13/pi-agent-skills/pi-cli-workspace
Any agent
npx skills add romiluz13/pi-agent-skills --skill pi-cli-workspace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romiluz13/pi-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pi-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00214 $0.03406
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.01703
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00341

Measured 6d ago against content hash eb4b8ce63678, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pi-cli-workspace 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 6d 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.

pi-skills/pi-cli-workspace/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pi CLI and workspace

Answer only from pi-mono/ sources listed below. If something is not in the tree, say you cannot confirm from the corpus.

Grounding (read in order)

  1. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md — product surface, commands, customization.
  2. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/skills.md — skill locations, /skill:name, frontmatter, collisions.
  3. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/settings.md — settings locations and keys.
  4. pi-mono/AGENTS.md — maintainer rules when editing pi-mono itself.
  5. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/compaction.md — auto-compaction triggers, cut-point algorithm, reserveTokens/keepRecentTokens settings, chained compactions, branch summarization.
  6. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/session.md — JSONL session format, ~/.pi/agent/sessions/ paths, entry types (message, compaction, branch_summary, custom, label), buildSessionContext() assembly.
  7. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/tree.md/tree vs /fork, branch navigation, summarization options, tree UI keybindings.
  8. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/providers.md — subscription OAuth (/login), API-key providers, auth.json, env-var credential table, cloud providers (Azure, Bedrock, Vertex).
  9. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/models.mdmodels.json for Ollama/vLLM/LM Studio, compat flags, modelOverrides, provider-level config.
  10. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/custom-provider.md — extension-registered providers via registerProvider(), OAuth flows, proxy patterns.
  11. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/terminal-setup.md — Kitty keyboard protocol, Ghostty/iTerm/terminal keybinding caveats.
  12. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/tmux.md — tmux extended-keys / csi-u so modified keys work inside pi.
  13. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/windows.md — Windows bash discovery order (shellPath setting, Git Bash, PATH).
  14. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/termux.md — running pi on Android via Termux (install, clipboard, storage).
  15. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/shell-aliases.md — non-interactive bash and shellCommandPrefix to expand aliases from dotfiles.
  16. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/docs/development.md — local development setup, pi-test.sh, fork/rebrand via piConfig, test commands.
  17. Implementation (for precedence and prompt wiring):
    • pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/src/core/package-manager.tsresourcePrecedenceRank comment block (ordering intent).
    • pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/src/core/resource-loader.tsreload() skill path merge (cliEnabledSkills, enabledSkills, additionalSkillPaths).
    • pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/src/core/skills.tsloadSkills, formatSkillsForPrompt, name collision handling.
    • pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/src/core/system-prompt.ts — default harness text and hasRead gate for skills XML.
    • pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/src/core/agent-session.ts_expandSkillCommand inlines /skill:name body.
  18. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §Editor — @ fuzzy-search, Tab completion, Ctrl+V image paste, !/!! bash commands.
  19. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §Message Queue — steering (Enter) vs follow-up (Alt+Enter), steeringMode/followUpMode/transport settings.
  20. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §Modes, §CLI Reference — interactive, -p/--print, --mode json, --mode rpc, piped stdin.
  21. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §CLI Reference — full flag table, @files, --tools, --no-tools, --no-extensions, --no-skills, --no-prompt-templates, --no-themes, resource control.
  22. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §Environment Variables — PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, PI_PACKAGE_DIR, PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK, PI_CACHE_RETENTION, VISUAL/EDITOR.
  23. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent/README.md §Philosophy — what core intentionally omits (no MCP, no sub-agents, no permission popups, no plan mode, no built-in todos, no background bash); everything buildable via extensions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 87 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A eb4b8ce63678

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pi-cli-workspace is a skill published in the GitHub repository romiluz13/pi-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 3,406 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 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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