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Pi Desktop v1.8.3 — macOS Fixes & Workflow Polish 🛠️

WebKit regex fix, intent-driven workflow summaries, Craft-style font defaults, animatable theme tokens, and packages-view refinements. Plus an auto session title rewrite and full bash command display.

Note: This is a personal fork of gustavonline/pi-desktop.

✨ What's new

WebKit / macOS fixes

  • Workflow regex crash — deriveWorkflowIntent used a lookbehind (?<=...) in its sentence-split regex, which macOS WebKit rejects with Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name. Replaced with a WebKit-safe split.
  • Installed badge SVG — the checkmark SVG in "Installed" badges lacked explicit width/height, causing WebKit to default to 300×150px and render the check at the wrong scale (invisible). Fixed to 16×16px.
  • Overlay backdrop-filter — removed backdrop-filter: blur(4px) from the .overlay backdrop; the rgba(0,0,0,0.48) dim is sufficient and avoids macOS compositing issues.

Workflow improvements

  • Intent-driven collapsed summary — collapsed workflow turns now show an intent label (first sentence of thinking or tool-category summary) instead of just a duration number
  • Full bash command display — expanded tool views now show the complete command instead of truncating; curl progress \r spam is collapsed into a clean summary
  • Preamble cleaning — auto session title prompt borrowed quality patterns from Craft Agents; shortened to 2–5 words with preamble stripping

Chassis

  • Craft-style font defaults — system sans for UI chrome, JetBrains Mono for code (hardware-accelerated font stack)
  • Animatable @property color tokens — smooth CSS transitions when switching themes
  • Build fix — committed Cargo.lock + pinned time to 0.3.36 for cookie 0.18.1 compatibility

Packages view refinements

  • Tab split — Installed section now separated into Skills / Extensions / Themes tabs
  • Real skill descriptions — clicking an installed skill shows its SKILL.md content inline
  • Composer overflow fix — long markdown or large token counts no longer overflow the input

⚠️ Known Issues (TODO)

  • macOS: model picker see-through — the model picker popover renders with a transparent background on macOS WebKit; model names overlap chat content behind. Three attempted CSS fixes (stacking-context, backdrop-filter removal, compositing-layer promotion) did not resolve it. Likely a deeper WebKit compositing bug. Needs macOS-specific visual debugging.
  • macOS: packages skill description faint — the expanded SKILL.md description in the Packages tab renders with near-transparent text on macOS, despite provably-opaque CSS (WCAG 7.4:1 contrast). The CSS chain is correct; the rendering failure is specific to macOS WebKit compositing. Needs a screenshot-and-inspect live session to diagnose.

📦 Download

This fork builds Windows (.exe) and macOS (.dmg). Both triggered from a single workflow.

⚠️ Unsigned builds

Windows: Click More info → Run anyway on SmartScreen.

macOS: xattr -cr "/Applications/Pi Desktop.app" after mounting.

⚙️ Requirements

  • Pi Coding Agent CLI: npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
  • Node.js ≥ 22

🙏 Credits

Built on gustavonline/pi-desktop.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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