pi-essentials

Essential extensions for pi — quality-of-life improvements that every setup should have.

Install

pi install npm:pi-essentials

What's Included

Extension	What it does
Auto Session Name	Names sessions from the first user message — no more unnamed-session-1
Compact Header	Clean table-style startup header with keybinding reference
Clipboard Image	Paste base64 image data (PNG/JPEG) directly into the prompt
Image Context Pruner	Strips images from older messages to save context tokens
Markdown Viewer	Rendered markdown preview on Ctrl+O for .md files, plus /mdview and /mermaid commands
Screenshot	/ss command — grab clipboard image or send a file to the agent. Requires kitty terminal + kitten binary
Subagent	subagent and subagent_status tools for spawning background pi instances whose results auto-inject back

Requirements

• pi 0.57+
• For screenshots: kitty terminal with clipboard_control read-clipboard, tmux with allow-passthrough on, ~/.local/bin/kitten
• For mermaid rendering: internet access (uses mermaid.ink API)

License

MIT