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Browser autocomplete for the repository directory and the worktree branch
need server-side help, because the daemon is the only process that can
walk the filesystem and run git.
web/server/suggestions.ts (new)
listDirectorySuggestions(query): treats the last path segment as a
prefix filter over the parent directory's entries. A trailing slash
is required to drill into a directory's children ("~/vessup" filters
sibling suggestions, "~/vessup/" lists children). Suggestions stop
once the parent is inside a Git repository (resolveSessionProject),
since the repository field selects a repo, not paths beneath one.
Hidden directories appear only when the prefix itself starts with ".".
web/server/worktrees.ts
listRepositoryBranches(cwd): for-each-ref over refs/heads and
refs/remotes, dropping the symbolic origin/HEAD pointer.
web/server/index.ts
GET /api/directories?q=... uses the suggestion helper rooted at ~.
GET /api/branches?cwd=... resolves the path and returns local + remote
branches; not-a-Git-repo returns empty arrays plus an error field so
the browser can fail soft mid-typing. Health advertises the new
branchSuggestions capability.
web/client/api.ts
listDirectorySuggestions and listBranchSuggestions wrappers; each
swallows network errors and returns an empty result so a stale daemon
doesn't take down the modal mid-typing.
.gitignore
Exclude .pi/worktrees/ so managed-worktree checkouts don't show up
untracked and don't carry a nested biome.json that breaks the linter.
tests/web-suggestions.test.ts (new)
Home-directory suggestion semantics, absolute path display outside
~, repo-boundary suppression, local/remote branch listing, non-Git
failure, and HTTP-level coverage of both endpoints against a
spawned server with HOME overridden.
Reorders the dialog so the worktree branch comes before the worktree
name, prefills the repository with "~/" instead of the current session's
absolute path, and derives both the worktree name and the session name
automatically from the upstream field (with manual overrides).
New AutocompleteInput helper
Plain text input plus an anchored popover list of suggestions. Filters
client-side so substring matches ("feat" -> "origin/feature") work
uniformly across browsers (native <datalist> filters inconsistently).
Keyboard: ArrowDown/ArrowUp navigate, Enter or Tab accepts the
highlighted suggestion, Escape dismisses the menu (stopPropagation
prevents the keystroke from bubbling to DialogContent's window Escape
listener). Tab is the new opt-in to accept the highlighted option
while the menu is open; a second Tab advances normally.
acceptSuffix prop
The repository field passes "/", so accepting a directory suggestion
appends a trailing slash and the menu stays open for further drilling.
Repeated Tab presses therefore walk down the path segment by segment
until the suggestions empty out (because the chosen path is a Git
repository). The branch field passes no suffix.
Other wiring
Dialog opens with repository = "~/", branch/name empty, all touched
flags false. The worktree branch's datalist shows local branches then
remote branches; when the typed branch exactly matches a known remote,
the request sends worktreeBranch as the local name (remote prefix
stripped) and worktreeStartPoint as the remote ref, which configures
upstream tracking. If the derived local branch already exists locally
no start point is sent so the server reuses it.
Removed
Recent-repositories wiring in the modal (the file and test stay as a
general utility; the previous instruction to default to recents is
replaced by "~/" plus live directory autocomplete).
baseSession prop on NewSessionDialog (unused after the prefill change).
worktreeStartPoint UI field; the protocol field is preserved so the
remote-branch -> start-point derivation above still works.
AnchoredPopover gains placement ("auto" | "below") and matchAnchorWidth
for the next commit's mobile work, and an Escapable helper is folded
in.
Two distinct bugs that bit together on a phone with the on-screen
keyboard up.
iOS Safari auto-zooms any focused input with font-size < 16px. The
shared Input component used text-sm (14px), so tapping a field jumped
to a zoomed-in view. Bumped the base font to 16px and only shrink back
to 14px at the sm: breakpoint, where the on-screen keyboard doesn't
exist.
web/client/components/ui/input.tsx
h-10 text-base sm:h-9 sm:text-sm. Desktop appearance is unchanged.
The "place the menu under the field" path clamped within the layout
viewport, so when the visual viewport shrank (keyboard open) the
clamp pushed the panel *up over* the input. The popover now measures
available room inside the visual viewport and:
- goes below when there's >= 96px of room below, or when below is
the larger side,
- otherwise flips above the field, ending the gap above the input,
- caps the panel's maxHeight (inline style) to the available room
so the list scrolls inside the gap rather than spilling.
web/client/components/anchored-popover.tsx
placement === "below" branch in update(): computes room below and
room above against visualViewport, picks a side, and sets an inline
maxHeight that respects the caller's CSS cap (read via
getComputedStyle; tracked in a ref so the cap doesn't ratchet down
when getComputedStyle returns our own inline value on subsequent
frames).
anchoredPopoverPosition's placement option was added by an earlier
draft and is no longer called; reverted to the original helper.
Running the full bun run check (which covers all three tsconfigs)
surfaced four type errors that had been hiding behind ! assertions
removed by the earlier lint-fix commit, plus a directory-entry type
annotation the linter had re-shaped into a property.
web/server/index.ts
sourceId is narrowed to a truthy string only inside the .find()
callback; after the early-continue the variable is still typed as
string | undefined because the narrowing doesn't survive the
closure boundary. Use sourceId ? persistedQueues.get(sourceId) :
undefined so the lookup typechecks.
web/server/semantic-session.tsx
Diff piece booleans (added / removed) are optional on the diff
shape, so the conditional that derives highlighted / hidden produced
boolean | undefined values. Coerce with ?? false.
usage?.cacheRead and usage?.cacheWrite are number | undefined; the
formatTokenCount calls now default to 0 the same way the
gating conditions do.
web/client/app.tsx
The sortable session card put role="button" tabIndex={0} before the
sortable.attributes / sortable.listeners spreads, which TS flagged
as overwriting the explicit props. Reordered so the explicit role
and tabIndex come after the spreads; overlay rows (no dnd
attributes) still get them.
web/server/suggestions.ts
The Dirent entries were declared as { isDirectory: boolean } but
read with the method shape via a cast, which the linter then
refactored into a property assignment that no longer typechecks.
Use the real Dirent type from node:fs for both the declaration and
the readdirSync return value.
The session model picker only ever showed one entry because get_session_options returned the intersection of scopedModels and the configured registry: when the session was scoped to a single model (via --model on the CLI or settings), the picker reflected that scope and listed only the active model. The user had no way to discover that other models existed or to pick one. Always return the full getAvailable() list to the browser. The picker then shows every model with configured credentials, so the user can see what they could choose. set_model still enforces scope via isScopedModelAllowed; a user picking an out-of-scope model gets the existing "Model is outside this session's configured scope" error and learns that the scope is the constraint, rather than seeing a picker that appears to offer only the current model with no explanation. This also makes the synthetic single-model fallback in the picker (semantic-session.tsx) effectively unreachable in practice: it only kicks in when the agent has zero available models.
This reverts commit 198eb89.
Previously the web daemon's model picker called the RPC's
get_available_models which always returned the full configured registry,
ignoring any --models scope the user set on the TUI. The fix lets the
agent forward its ExtensionContext.scopedModels to the daemon on hello
(and on a dedicated agent.scope frame for live updates) so the daemon
can apply the same scope filter the agent's get_session_options
handler already used.
web/protocol.ts
New server-internal WebScopedModel type — never serialized to the
browser. AgentHelloMessage gains optional scopedModels. New
AgentScopeMessage carries {sessionId, scopedModels} for live updates
if scope ever changes mid-session via setScopedModels.
web/server/server-types.ts
SessionRecord gains optional scopedModels, populated from the
agent's hello and updated by the new scope message.
This commit is the protocol + storage layer; the agent forwards scope
on hello and the daemon filters on get_session_options in the next two
commits.
The useEffect that loaded the model picker data for the active session had the entire session object in its dependency array. Because selectedSession is recomputed on every agent update (live usage counters, history, model, status all flow through), the effect fired on every websocket frame. Each fire bumped the options generation, kicked off another get_session_options RPC call, and waited for its response. If any call in the burst threw (RPC subprocess busy, session in an error state, etc.), the catch block ran with the latest generation and cleared sessionOptions.models, leaving the picker stuck on the synthetic single-model fallback. Refire only when the session identity or status actually changes. The effect now captures the primitives at the top (sessionId and status) and the dep list matches exactly what the effect reads, so biome's useExhaustiveDependencies rule is satisfied without downgrading it.
Previously the web daemon's model picker called the RPC's get_available_models which always returned the full configured registry, ignoring any --models scope the user set on the TUI. The TUI respects scope; the web picker did not. The agent extension (extensions/web-sessions.ts) now forwards state.ctx.scopedModels on agent.hello, alongside the session payload it was already sending. The daemon stores it on the SessionRecord and the get_session_options route filters the RPC result by that scope before mapping to the browser-facing WebModelOption list. When scope is empty (no --models), no filtering happens and the picker shows everything as before. A new server-internal agent.scope message lets the agent push scope updates if the SDK ever fires a scope-change event mid-session; the type is in place but no current event source emits it. The browser never sees scopedModels directly; it only sees the picker list the daemon hands it. Hardlinked files (extensions/web-sessions.ts, web/protocol.ts, web/server/index.ts, web/server/server-types.ts) cover both pi-kit and pi-package, so restarting the running pi-package web daemon picks up the new code path.
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Caution Review failedAn error occurred during the review process. Please try again later. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSubagent waiters now wake only for lifecycle completion, failure, or termination. Reads enforce a 30-second minimum wait, return completion summaries, optionally include transcripts, and release terminal agents automatically. Tests cover summary output, cleanup, and transcript behavior. ChangesSubagent Read Lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change reduces subagent polling and transcript noise, but the current PR still contains a persistence path that can terminate the Pi process on write failure, along with a delayed cancellation edge case and retry-delay/documentation mismatches. Merge should wait until the process-safety risk is fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReadTool
participant SubagentManager
participant ManagedSubagent
ReadTool->>SubagentManager: wait for lifecycle update
SubagentManager->>ManagedSubagent: check state
ManagedSubagent-->>SubagentManager: return terminal or failed state
SubagentManager-->>ReadTool: return summary and optional transcript
SubagentManager->>ManagedSubagent: terminate terminal agent
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In `@extensions/auto-router-health.ts`:
- Around line 88-98: Update parseRetryAfterMs to locate the Retry-After header
case-insensitively across all entries in the headers record, while preserving
the existing numeric and date parsing behavior once the value is found.
- Around line 374-400: Handle persistence errors within the health store’s
scheduled flush path: catch failures from mkdir, writeFile, or rename in flush
(or its scheduleSave caller), and swallow or log them so the timer’s void
this.flush() cannot create an unhandled rejection. Apply the same protection to
the direct void healthStore.flush() call in the auto-router flow, while
preserving best-effort telemetry behavior and temporary-file cleanup.
In `@extensions/auto-router.ts`:
- Around line 509-523: The trackedModel function rereads and reparses
settings.json for every provider response and assistant message. Add a
short-lived parsed-settings cache, refreshed on session_start and/or a small
TTL, and have trackedModel reuse the cached settings while preserving updates
after the settings file changes.
In `@extensions/subagents/manager.ts`:
- Around line 488-491: Remove the non-retry wakeReadWaiters call from the
agent_end handler in the manager’s event switch, leaving the retry activity
update intact. Ensure waiters are woken only by the existing path that records
the terminal completed or failed status, after that transition has occurred.
- Around line 897-904: Remove the archivedAgents deletion from the
agent-processing loop, leaving terminal agents archived until terminate is
called. Ensure terminate(id, true) performs the archive removal after resolving
the agent so retained terminal subagents remain accessible by id during
termination.
In `@README.md`:
- Line 40: Update the README configuration guidance to remove the unsupported
`.pi/settings.json` project-override claim, unless `readAutoRouterSettings` is
extended to load that path; keep the documented location consistent with the
file path used by `readAutoRouterSettings`.
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Conflict resolutions:
- web/client/app.tsx: kept HEAD's explanatory comment above the
role/tabIndex attributes after the sortable spreads (origin/main
dropped the comment but kept the attributes)
- web/client/semantic-session.tsx: kept 'Cache write' and <strong>
on a single line, matching the surrounding Input / Output /
Cache read / Cost token-detail spans (HEAD had split them with
an explicit {' '} for consistency reasons that don't apply here)
Also adds .claude/worktrees to .gitignore.
Confirmed both via CodeRabbit review on PR #7 plus direct reproduction, not just from reading the diff: 1. agent_end (non-retry) woke read waiters before the terminal status transition actually happened - willRetry:false only means this particular run won't auto-retry, but Pi can still continue with queued follow-ups before genuinely settling. A caller woken here got a still-"working" snapshot and had to wait a full cycle again for the real completion. Removed; the actual terminal transition (agent_settled / attachRun's own handlers) already wakes waiters. 2. read()'s auto-release deleted an agent from archivedAgents inside the read loop, before the batch terminate(id, true) call at the end - which resolves the agent via getAgent() first. Reading an archived (previously-terminated, output-preserved) agent by id would delete its only reference and then crash the whole read() call with "Unknown subagent". terminate() already deletes it from archivedAgents itself once remove=true, so let it own that. Also fixed one I found independently while verifying the PR's actual goal ("stop wakeups on routine activity to avoid rapid loops"): waitForUpdates's own hasUnread() early-return bypassed the wait mechanism entirely whenever the target agent had any unread activity - and agent.activity still grows on every routine event (tool start/ end, throttled streaming text, queue updates), not just terminal ones. In practice this meant the enforced wait only ever applied to an agent that had gone completely idle between reads - the opposite of the actively-working-subagent scenario that causes rapid polling loops in the first place. Verified with a standalone repro: waitForUpdates(..., 30) returned in 0ms given one pre-existing routine activity entry. Removed the check (and the now-unused private method) entirely; the already-terminal case it also tried to cover is already handled correctly by the running.length === 0 check right after it. Also applied biome's suggested cleanup (template literals, unused imports) left over from the prior commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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842-854: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winHandle an already-aborted signal before waiting.
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signal.abortedis alreadytrue, registering anabortlistener does not invoke it.waitForUpdatesthen waits for the full timeout beforesubagent_readreports cancellation. Return early whensignal?.abortedis true.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 842-854: Update waitForUpdates to check signal?.aborted before
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Apply the same fix in `@extensions/subagents/manager.ts` around lines 884 - 910.
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These showed up as PR #7 comments due to a stale diff view (before merging main into that branch), attached to files PR #7 doesn't actually touch since they landed via PR #6. Fixing them here, then merging this into fix/subagents-read-summary per request so they ride along on that PR instead of a separate one. - parseRetryAfterMs only checked the two exact-cased header key variants ("retry-after"/"Retry-After"); a real provider using a different casing (e.g. "RETRY-AFTER") would silently fall through to the exponential-backoff estimate instead of the provider's own value. Now matches case-insensitively. - AutoRouterHealthStore.scheduleSave's timer callback called `void this.flush()` with nothing to catch a rejection - a transient write failure (ENOSPC, EACCES, ...) would become an unhandled rejection with no caller around to catch it. Same pattern existed in auto-router.ts's session_shutdown handler. Both now swallow the error, matching this store's documented best-effort nature. - trackedModel (used by after_provider_response and message_end, both of which can fire multiple times per turn) re-read and re-parsed settings.json from disk on every call. Added a short (5s) TTL cache scoped specifically to this membership check - routing decisions themselves (routeForPrompt, /usage, reconciliation) still always read fresh, since staleness there would mean routing on config the user no longer has. - README claimed `.pi/settings.json` works as a project override; readAutoRouterSettings only ever reads the global ~/.pi/agent/settings.json. Removed the false claim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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