When using `--session <UUID>`, the session lookup now:
1. Searches locally first (current project's session directory)
2. Falls back to global search across all projects
3. If found in different project, prompts user to fork the session
4. If not found anywhere, shows clear error instead of silently creating
a broken session with malformed path
Adds `SessionManager.forkFrom()` to create a forked session from another
project, preserving full conversation history with updated cwd.
- Add SessionInfoEntry type for session metadata
- Add /name <name> command to set session display name
- Add pi.setSessionName() and pi.getSessionName() extension API
- Session selector shows name (in warning color) instead of first message when set
- Session name included in fuzzy search
- /session command displays name when set
closes#650
- /resume and --resume now toggle between Current Folder and All sessions with Tab
- SessionManager.list() and listAll() are now async with optional progress callback
- Shows loading progress (e.g. Loading 5/42) while scanning sessions
- SessionInfo.cwd field shows session working directory in All view
- Lazy loading: All sessions only loaded when user presses Tab
closes#619
Co-authored-by: Thomas Mustier <mustierthomas@gmail.com>
Breaking changes:
- Settings: 'hooks' and 'customTools' arrays replaced with 'extensions'
- CLI: '--hook' and '--tool' flags replaced with '--extension' / '-e'
- API: HookMessage renamed to CustomMessage, role 'hookMessage' to 'custom'
- API: FileSlashCommand renamed to PromptTemplate
- API: discoverSlashCommands() renamed to discoverPromptTemplates()
- Directories: commands/ renamed to prompts/ for prompt templates
Migration:
- Session version bumped to 3 (auto-migrates v2 sessions)
- Old 'hookMessage' role entries converted to 'custom'
Structural changes:
- src/core/hooks/ and src/core/custom-tools/ merged into src/core/extensions/
- src/core/slash-commands.ts renamed to src/core/prompt-templates.ts
- examples/hooks/ and examples/custom-tools/ merged into examples/extensions/
- docs/hooks.md and docs/custom-tools.md merged into docs/extensions.md
New test coverage:
- test/extensions-runner.test.ts (10 tests)
- test/extensions-discovery.test.ts (26 tests)
- test/prompt-templates.test.ts
- Remove session_before_new and session_new hook events
- Add reason: 'new' | 'resume' to session_before_switch and session_switch events
- Remove 'new' reason from custom tool onSession (use 'switch' for both /new and /resume)
- Rename reset() to newSession(options?) in AgentSession
- Add NewSessionOptions with optional parentSession for lineage tracking
- Rename branchedFrom to parentSession in SessionHeader
- Rename RPC reset command to new_session with optional parentSession
- Update example hooks to use new event structure
- Update documentation and changelog
Based on discussion in #293
- CustomAgentTool renamed to CustomTool
- ToolAPI renamed to CustomToolAPI
- ToolContext renamed to CustomToolContext
- ToolSessionEvent renamed to CustomToolSessionEvent
- Added CustomToolContext parameter to execute() and onSession()
- CustomToolFactory now returns CustomTool<any, any> for type compatibility
- dispose() replaced with onSession({ reason: 'shutdown' })
- Added wrapCustomTool() to convert CustomTool to AgentTool
- Session exposes setToolUIContext() instead of leaking internals
- Fix ToolExecutionComponent to sync with toolOutputExpanded state
- Update all custom tool examples for new API
- Add ReadonlySessionManager interface to session-manager.ts
- Re-export from hooks/index.ts
- Add collectEntriesForBranchSummary() to extract entries for summarization
- Don't stop at compaction boundaries (include their summaries as context)
- Add token budget support to prepareBranchEntries()
- Walk entries newest-to-oldest to prioritize recent context
- Use options object for generateBranchSummary()
- Handle compaction entries as context summaries
- Export new types: CollectEntriesResult, GenerateBranchSummaryOptions
- Add test/utilities.ts with shared helpers (API_KEY, userMsg, assistantMsg, createTestSession)
- Add agent-session-tree-navigation.test.ts with e2e tests for tree navigation
- Add getChildren() method to SessionManager
- Add summaryEntry to navigateTree return type
- Update existing tests to use shared utilities
- Check response.stopReason instead of catching errors for abort detection
- Return result object from _generateBranchSummary instead of throwing
- Fix summary attachment: attach to navigation target position, not old branch
- Support root-level summaries (parentId=null) in branchWithSummary
- Remove setTimeout hack for re-showing tree selector on abort
- Add TreeSelectorComponent with ASCII tree visualization
- Add AgentSession.navigateTree() for switching branches
- Add session_before_tree/session_tree hook events
- Add SessionManager.resetLeaf() for navigating to root
- Change leafId from string to string|null for consistency with parentId
- Support optional branch summarization when switching
- Update buildSessionContext() to handle null leafId
- Add /tree to slash commands in interactive mode
Major changes:
- Replace monolithic SessionEvent with reason discriminator with individual
event types: session_start, session_before_switch, session_switch,
session_before_new, session_new, session_before_branch, session_branch,
session_before_compact, session_compact, session_shutdown
- Each event has dedicated result type (SessionBeforeSwitchResult, etc.)
- HookHandler type now allows bare return statements (void in return type)
- HookAPI.on() has proper overloads for each event with correct typing
Additional fixes:
- AgentSession now always subscribes to agent in constructor (was only
subscribing when external subscribe() called, breaking internal handlers)
- Standardize on undefined over null throughout codebase
- HookUIContext methods return undefined instead of null
- SessionManager methods return undefined instead of null
- Simplify hook exports to 'export type * from types.js'
- Add detailed JSDoc for skipConversationRestore vs cancel
- Fix createBranchedSession to rebuild index in persist mode
- newSession() now returns the session file path
Updated all example hooks, tests, and emission sites to use new event types.
- addMessageToChat: exhaustive switch for all AgentMessage roles
- renderSessionContext: delegates to addMessageToChat, special handling for assistant tool calls and tool results
- export-html formatMessage: exhaustive switch for all AgentMessage roles
- Removed isHookMessage, isBashExecutionMessage type guards in favor of role checks
- Fixed imports and removed unused getLatestCompactionEntry
Two bugs:
1. createCustomMessage was returning role: 'user' instead of preserving
the hook message structure (role: 'hookMessage', customType, etc.)
2. rebuildChatFromMessages wasn't clearing the container before rebuilding
- Renamed AppMessage to AgentMessage throughout
- New agent-loop.ts with AgentLoopContext, AgentLoopConfig
- Removed transport abstraction, Agent now takes streamFn directly
- Extracted streamProxy to proxy.ts utility
- Removed agent-loop from pi-ai (now in agent package)
- Updated consumers (coding-agent, mom) for AgentMessage rename
- Tests updated but some consumers still need migration
Known issues:
- AgentTool, AgentToolResult not exported from pi-ai
- Attachment not exported from pi-agent-core
- ProviderTransport removed but still referenced
- messageTransformer -> convertToLlm migration incomplete
- CustomMessages declaration merging not working properly
- Rename HookAppMessage to HookMessage, isHookAppMessage to isHookMessage
- Remove entries array from SessionContext (use isHookMessage type guard instead)
- HookMessage.content now accepts string directly (not just array)
- Fix streamMessage type in AgentState (AppMessage, not Message)
- Rename CustomMessageComponent to HookMessageComponent
- Fix test hook to use pi.sendMessage
- Add renderCustomMessage to HookAPI for registering custom renderers
- Add CustomMessageRenderer type and CustomMessageRenderOptions
- Store customMessageRenderers in LoadedHook
- Add getCustomMessageRenderer(customType) to HookRunner
- SessionContext.entries now aligned with messages (same length, corresponding indices)
TUI can now correlate messages with their source entries to identify
custom_message entries and use hook-provided renderers.
content: string | (TextContent | ImageContent)[]
This matches the UserMessage type from pi-ai, so content can be
passed directly to AppMessage without conversion.
- CustomMessageEntry<T> type with customType, content, display, details
- appendCustomMessageEntry() in SessionManager
- buildSessionContext() includes custom_message entries as user messages
- Exported CustomEntry and CustomMessageEntry from main index
CustomEntry is for hook state (not in context).
CustomMessageEntry is for hook-injected content (in context).
- CompactionEntry<T> and CompactionResult<T> now have optional details?: T
- appendCompaction() accepts optional details parameter
- Hooks can return compaction.details to store custom data
- Enables structured compaction with ArtifactIndex (see #314)
- Fix CompactionResult export location (now from compaction.ts)
- Update plan with remaining compaction refactor items
- Add LabelEntry type with targetId and label (string | undefined)
- Add labelsById map built on load via linear scan
- Add getLabel(id) and appendLabelChange(targetId, label) methods
- Add label field to SessionTreeNode, populated by getTree()
- Update createBranchedSession to preserve labels for entries on path
- Labels are ignored by buildSessionContext (not sent to LLM)
- Add comprehensive tests for label functionality
- Replace custom uuidv4() with native crypto.randomUUID()
- Entry IDs use first 8 hex chars with collision checking
- Session IDs stay full UUIDs (used in filenames)
- ~0.01 collisions per 10k entries, retry handles it
When --session path was provided for a non-existent file, _initNewSession() was overwriting the path with an auto-generated one. Now it only generates a filename if sessionFile wasn't already set.
- SessionEntry now only contains conversation entries (messages, compaction, etc.)
- SessionHeader is separate, not part of SessionEntry
- FileEntry = SessionHeader | SessionEntry (for file storage)
- getEntries() filters out header, returns SessionEntry[]
- Added getHeader() for accessing session metadata
- Updated compaction and tests to not expect header in entries
- Updated mom package to use FileEntry for internal storage
- Add --session-dir CLI flag to specify custom session directory
- SessionManager API: second param of create(), continueRecent(), list(), open()
changed from agentDir to sessionDir (direct directory, no cwd encoding)
- When omitted, uses default (~/.pi/agent/sessions/<encoded-cwd>/)
- --session now derives sessionDir from file's parent if --session-dir not provided
- list() validates session header before processing files
- Closes#313
Co-authored-by: scutifer <scutifer@users.noreply.github.com>
- SessionManager: add flushed flag, _persist() flushes all entries when first assistant seen
- SessionManager: reset() now creates session header
- MomSessionManager: same pattern, remove pendingEntries/sessionInitialized/startSession/shouldInitializeSession
- Add factory methods: create(cwd), open(path), continueRecent(cwd), inMemory()
- Add static list(cwd) for session listing
- Make constructor private, pass cwd explicitly
- Update SDK to take sessionManager instead of sessionFile options
- Update main.ts to create SessionManager based on CLI flags
- Update SessionSelectorComponent to take sessions[] instead of SessionManager
- Update tests to use factory methods
- Allow branch selector to open with single user message (changed <= 1 to === 0 check)
- Support in-memory branching for --no-session mode (no files created)
- Add isEnabled() getter to SessionManager
- Update sessionFile getter to return null when sessions disabled
- Update SessionSwitchEvent types to allow null session files
- Add branching tests for single message and --no-session scenarios
fixes#163
- Add agentLoopContinue() to pi-ai for resuming from existing context
- Add Agent.continue() method and transport.continue() interface
- Simplify AgentSession compaction to two cases: overflow (auto-retry) and threshold (no retry)
- Remove proactive mid-turn compaction abort
- Merge turn prefix summary into main summary
- Add isCompacting property to AgentSession and RPC state
- Block input during compaction in interactive mode
- Show compaction count on session resume
- Rename RPC.md to rpc.md for consistency
Related to #128
Phase 1: Updated compaction.ts
- findCutPoint now returns CutPointResult with isSplitTurn and turnStartIndex
- Can cut at user, assistant, or bashExecution messages (never tool results)
- Added turnPrefixSummary support for split turns (parallel summarization)
- estimateTokens helper for context size estimation
Phase 2: Updated session-manager.ts
- CompactionEntry now has optional turnPrefixSummary field
- loadSessionFromEntries injects both summaries when turn was split
Phase 3: Updated agent-session.ts
- Overflow detection via isContextOverflow after agent_end
- Proactive compaction check on turn_end before next LLM call
- _abortingForCompaction flag to skip saving aborted messages
- Auto-retry after overflow recovery or proactive compaction
- New event fields: reason (overflow/threshold), willRetry
Phase 4: Updated interactive-mode.ts
- Shows reason in compaction status (Context overflow detected...)
- Shows retry status after compaction
Tests updated for new CutPointResult return type.
SessionManager now tracks all entries in memory regardless of whether file
persistence is enabled. This allows compaction to work in --no-session mode
where no session file is created.
- Added inMemoryEntries array to store session entries
- All save methods now push to inMemoryEntries
- loadEntries() returns in-memory entries when file persistence is disabled
- File persistence only writes when enabled flag is true
- Session loading (constructor, setSessionFile) populates in-memory entries
