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<p align="center">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/main/docs/images/pi-control-hero.svg" alt="pi-control: capture, change, verify, evidence" width="100%">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/main/docs/images/pi-control-hero.svg" alt="Pi Control: inspect, change, verify" width="100%">
</p>

# @groeponline/pi-control
<h1 align="center">Pi Control</h1>

**A Pi extension that gives humans and coding agents a control plane over the live Pi process** — agent sessions, model switching, tool gating, saved runtime state, QA verification, and guardrails — with every change backed by evidence from the same process it controls.
<p align="center"><strong>Inspect the live Pi process, change it deliberately, and verify the result.</strong><br>Control sessions, models, tools and saved runtime state from the same process your agent is already using.</p>

`pi-control` does not replace Pi's agent runtime, spawn daemons, or mirror state into a second store. It operates directly on Pi's own session tree, model registry, tool inventory, and state history, then verifies what actually happened.

[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@groeponline/pi-control.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@groeponline/pi-control) [![downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@groeponline/pi-control.svg?label=downloads)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@groeponline/pi-control) [![Pi package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pi-package-9b59b6.svg)](https://pi.dev/packages/@groeponline/pi-control) [![verify](https://github.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/actions/workflows/publish-npm.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/actions/workflows/publish-npm.yml) ![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg)

## At a glance

- **5 agent tools** — `pi_session`, `pi_model`, `pi_tool`, `pi_state`, `pi_verify`
- **3 operator commands** — `/pi-demo`, `/pi-verify`, `/pi-qa`
- **Guardrails** — destructive shell and unsafe mutation patterns are denied before execution
- **1 packaged skill** — `pi-control` operating discipline (capture → change → verify → report)
- **No telemetry, no daemon, no second runtime** — in-process against the live Pi host

## Install
<p align="center">
<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@groeponline/pi-control"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@groeponline/pi-control.svg" alt="npm version"></a>
<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@groeponline/pi-control"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@groeponline/pi-control.svg?label=downloads" alt="npm downloads"></a>
<a href="https://pi.dev/packages/@groeponline/pi-control"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Pi-package-9b59b6.svg" alt="Pi package"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/actions/workflows/publish-npm.yml"><img src="https://github.com/GroepOnline/pi-control/actions/workflows/publish-npm.yml/badge.svg" alt="verify"></a>
<a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg" alt="MIT license"></a>
</p>

Persistent (all Pi sessions):
## Start in 10 seconds

```bash
pi install npm:@groeponline/pi-control
```

One session only:
Try it for one session first:

```bash
pi -e npm:@groeponline/pi-control
```

Pi loads both the extension and the packaged skill from the package manifest — no extra configuration.
Pi loads the extension and its packaged operating skill automatically.

## Quick start
## Three useful things to do first

**Verify a claim about the runtime:**
### Verify what Pi is actually running

```json
{"tool":"pi_verify","action":"session","expectations":{"entries.gt":5}}
```

**Switch model and thinking level, then confirm:**
### Change thinking level and prove it stuck

```json
{"tool":"pi_model","action":"thinking","level":"high"}
```

```json
{"tool":"pi_verify","action":"model","expectations":{"thinkingLevel":"high"}}
```

**Snapshot state before a risky change, restore it after:**
### Gate the toolset for a bounded run

```json
{"tool":"pi_state","action":"save","key":"before-refactor","data":{"phase":"baseline"}}
{"tool":"pi_tool","action":"set_active","tools":["read","bash"]}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use toolNames in the pi_tool example.

set_active reads params.toolNames. The example passes tools, so toolNames is missing and the request fails.

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-{"tool":"pi_tool","action":"set_active","tools":["read","bash"]}
+{"tool":"pi_tool","action":"set_active","toolNames":["read","bash"]}
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{"tool":"pi_tool","action":"set_active","tools":["read","bash"]}
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In `@README.md` at line 49, Update the README pi_tool set_active example to pass
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```

```json
{"tool":"pi_state","action":"restore","key":"before-refactor"}
```
`set_active` replaces the full active tool set, so inspect first and keep the set as small as the task allows.

**Gate the toolset for a bounded run:**
## What it controls

```json
{"tool":"pi_tool","action":"set_active","tools":["read","bash"]}
```
- **Sessions** — inspect, fork, switch, compact, navigate, label and rename.
- **Models** — list providers, switch model and change thinking level.
- **Tools** — inspect and replace the active tool set.
- **State** — save, diff and restore named runtime snapshots.
- **Verification** — assert session, model, tool and state expectations against the live process.
- **Guardrails** — block destructive shell and unsafe mutation patterns before execution.

There is no daemon and no second state store. Pi Control works against Pi's own session tree, model registry, tool inventory and runtime state.

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