@kaiserlich-dev/pi-session-search

Full-text search across all pi sessions with a SQLite FTS5 index and overlay UI.

Install

npm (recommended)

pi install npm:@kaiserlich-dev/pi-session-search

git (alternative)

pi install git:github.com/kaiserlich-dev/pi-session-search

By default this writes to ~/.pi/agent/settings.json. Use -l to install into .pi/settings.json for a project.

Then restart pi or run /reload.

Features

• FTS5 index — indexes user messages, assistant responses, tool results, and session metadata. Sub-100ms queries regardless of session count.
• Browse recent sessions — opening search shows your most recent sessions immediately, no typing required.
• Incremental indexing — only processes new/changed sessions. Runs async in background on startup with cooperative yielding.
• Overlay search palette — theme-aware UI matching pi-skill-picker / pi-queue-picker style.
• Preview — see matched snippets with highlighted search terms before deciding.
• Resume — switch to a found session directly from the preview.
• Summarize & inject — ask the LLM to read the full session and inject a summary into your current context.
• Custom focus prompt — optionally provide a focus (e.g. "focus on the auth decisions") before summarizing, so the summary targets what you care about.
• New session with context — start a fresh session with summarized context from a previous one.
• Smart project names — resolves ~/code/owner/repo paths into readable owner/repo project labels.

Usage

Shortcut / Command	Action
Ctrl+F	Open search overlay
/search	Open search overlay
/search resume <sessionPath>	Resume a specific session by file path
/search reindex	Clear and rebuild index from scratch
/search stats	Show index statistics

Search screen

Key	Action
Type	Search query (debounced)
← / →	Move cursor within query
Home / Ctrl+A	Jump to start of query
End / Ctrl+E	Jump to end of query
Delete	Delete character after cursor
Ctrl+W / Alt+Backspace	Delete word before cursor
Paste	Insert clipboard text at cursor
↑ / ↓	Navigate results
Enter	Open preview for selected result
Esc	Close

When opened with an empty query, recent sessions are shown (most recent first).

Preview screen

Key	Action
Tab / ← →	Cycle actions: Resume · Summarize · New + Context · Back
Enter	Execute selected action
Esc	Back to search

Summary Focus screen

When choosing Summarize or New + Context, a prompt screen appears:

Key	Action
Enter	Use default summary (no custom focus)
Type + Enter	Summarize with custom focus prompt
Esc	Back to preview

The custom focus is passed to the LLM alongside the session content, steering the summary toward what matters to you.

How it works

1. On session_start, the indexer scans ~/.pi/agent/sessions/ for JSONL files.
2. Files with a newer mtime than last indexed are parsed — user messages, assistant text (no thinking blocks), and tool results are extracted.
3. Text is chunked into ~4KB segments and inserted into a SQLite FTS5 table with Porter stemming.
4. Searches use FTS5 MATCH with BM25 ranking, deduplicated per session at the SQL level.
5. The index lives at ~/.pi-session-search/index.db (~5–10MB for hundreds of sessions).
6. Summaries are generated via OpenRouter (Gemini Flash) and injected as assistant messages.

Development

# Run locally without installing
pi -e ./extensions/index.ts