Compaction API:
- prepareCompaction() now takes (pathEntries, settings) only
- CompactionPreparation restructured: removed cutPoint/messagesToKeep/boundaryStart, added turnPrefixMessages/isSplitTurn/previousSummary/fileOps/settings
- compact() now takes (preparation, model, apiKey, customInstructions?, signal?)
- Fixed token overflow by using getPath() instead of getEntries()
Hook types:
- HookEventContext renamed to HookContext
- HookCommandContext removed, RegisteredCommand.handler takes (args, ctx)
- HookContext now includes model field
- SessionBeforeCompactEvent: removed previousCompactions/model, added branchEntries
- SessionBeforeTreeEvent: removed model (use ctx.model)
- HookRunner.initialize() added for modes to set up callbacks
- 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
- Move compaction.ts to src/core/compaction/compaction.ts
- Extract branch summarization to src/core/compaction/branch-summarization.ts
- Add index.ts to re-export all compaction utilities
- Update all imports across the codebase
- 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.
Hook commands now always execute immediately, even during streaming.
If a command needs to interact with the LLM, it uses pi.sendMessage()
which handles queueing automatically.
This simplifies the API and eliminates the issue of queued slash
commands being sent to the LLM instead of executing.
- Add BeforeAgentStartEvent and BeforeAgentStartEventResult types
- Add emitBeforeAgentStart to HookRunner
- Call in AgentSession.prompt() before agent.prompt()
- Hook can return a message to inject into context (persisted + visible)
- Add test hook demonstrating custom message rendering and before_agent_start
- Removed Attachment from agent package (now in web-ui/coding-agent)
- Agent.prompt now takes (text, images?: ImageContent[])
- Removed transports from web-ui (duplicate of agent package)
- Updated coding-agent to use local message types
- Updated mom package for new agent API
Remaining: Fix AgentInterface.ts to compose UserMessageWithAttachments
- 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
- Change from contextTransform (runs once at agent start) to preprocessor
- preprocessor runs before EACH LLM call inside the agent loop
- ContextEvent now uses Message[] (pi-ai format) instead of AppMessage[]
- Deep copy handled by pi-ai preprocessor, not Agent
This enables:
- Pruning rules applied on every turn (not just agent start)
- /prune during long agent loop takes effect immediately
- Compaction can use same transforms (future work)
- Add contextTransform option to Agent (runs before messageTransformer)
- Deep copy messages before passing to contextTransform (modifications are ephemeral)
- Add ContextEvent and ContextEventResult types
- Add emitContext() to HookRunner (chains multiple handlers)
- Wire up in sdk.ts when creating Agent with hooks
Enables dynamic context pruning: hooks can modify messages sent to LLM
without changing session data. See discussion #330.
- Extract execCommand to src/core/exec.ts, shared by hooks and custom-tools
- Rename CustomMessageRenderer -> HookMessageRenderer
- Rename registerCustomMessageRenderer -> registerMessageRenderer
- Renderer now receives HookMessage instead of CustomMessageEntry
- CustomMessageComponent now has setExpanded() and responds to Ctrl+E toggle
- Re-export ExecOptions/ExecResult from exec.ts for backward compatibility
- Command handler now returns Promise<void> instead of Promise<string | undefined>
- To trigger LLM response, use sendMessage() with triggerTurn: true
- Simplify _tryExecuteHookCommand to return boolean
Added example hook and slash command in .pi/:
- .pi/hooks/test-command.ts - /greet command using sendMessage
- .pi/commands/review.md - file-based /review command
Hook commands registered via pi.registerCommand() are now handled in
AgentSession.prompt() alongside file-based slash commands. This:
- Removes duplicate tryHandleHookCommand from interactive-mode and rpc-mode
- All modes (interactive, RPC, print) share the same command handling logic
- AgentSession._tryExecuteHookCommand() builds CommandContext using:
- UI context from hookRunner (set by mode)
- sessionManager, modelRegistry from AgentSession
- sendMessage via sendHookMessage
- exec via exported execCommand
- Handler returning string uses it as prompt, undefined returns early
Also:
- Export execCommand from hooks/runner.ts
- Add getUIContext() and getHasUI() to HookRunner
- Make HookRunner.emitError() public for error reporting
Breaking changes to Hook API:
- pi.send(text, attachments?) replaced with pi.sendMessage(message, triggerTurn?)
- Creates CustomMessageEntry instead of user messages
- Properly handles queuing during streaming via agent loop
- Supports optional turn triggering when idle
- New pi.appendEntry(customType, data?) for hook state persistence
- New pi.registerCommand(name, options) for custom slash commands
- Handler types renamed: SendHandler -> SendMessageHandler, new AppendEntryHandler
Implementation:
- AgentSession.sendHookMessage() handles all three cases:
- Streaming: queues message with _hookData marker, agent loop processes it
- Not streaming + triggerTurn: appends to state/session, calls agent.continue()
- Not streaming + no trigger: appends to state/session only
- message_end handler routes based on _hookData presence to correct persistence
- HookRunner gains getRegisteredCommands() and getCommand() methods
New types: HookMessage<T>, RegisteredCommand, CommandContext
- 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.
- Import CompactionResult in hooks/types.ts
- Replace inline type with CompactionResult for SessionEventResult.compaction
- Add labels feature to changelog
- Merge branch event into session with before_branch/branch reasons
- Add before_switch, before_clear, shutdown reasons
- before_* events can be cancelled with { cancel: true }
- Update RPC commands to return cancelled status
- Add shutdown event on process exit
- New example hooks: confirm-destructive, dirty-repo-guard, auto-commit-on-exit
fixes#278
- Use default params instead of resolvedAgentDir pattern in loaders
- Remove unused DiscoverAndLoadHooksOptions interface
- Remove redundant github-copilot special casing in getAvailableModels
Breaking changes:
- Custom tools now require index.ts entry point in subdirectory
(e.g., tools/mytool/index.ts instead of tools/mytool.ts)
Subagent tool improvements:
- Refactored to use Message[] from ai package instead of custom types
- Extracted agent discovery to separate agents.ts module
- Added parallel mode streaming (shows progress from all tasks)
- Added turn count to usage stats footer
- Removed redundant Query section from scout output
Fixes:
- JSON mode stdout flush: Fixed race condition where pi --mode json
could exit before all output was written, causing consumers to
miss final events
Also:
- Added signal/timeout support to pi.exec() for custom tools and hooks
- Renamed pi-pods bin to avoid conflict with pi
- Export isBashToolResult, isReadToolResult, etc. type guards
- Update hooks.md with type guard usage examples
- Document custom tool handling in hooks.md
Breaking change: ToolResultEvent now exposes content and typed details
instead of just a result string. Hook handlers returning { result: ... }
must change to { content: [...] }.
- ToolResultEvent is now a discriminated union based on toolName
- Each built-in tool has typed details (BashToolDetails, etc.)
- Export tool details types and TruncationResult
- Update hooks.md documentation
Closes#233
- Custom tools: TypeScript modules that extend pi with new tools
- Custom TUI rendering via renderCall/renderResult
- User interaction via pi.ui (select, confirm, input, notify)
- Session lifecycle via onSession callback for state reconstruction
- Examples: todo.ts, question.ts, hello.ts
- Hook examples: permission-gate, git-checkpoint, protected-paths
- Session lifecycle centralized in AgentSession
- Works across all modes (interactive, print, RPC)
- Unified session event for hooks (replaces session_start/session_switch)
- Box component added to pi-tui
- Examples bundled in npm and binary releases
Fixes#190
- 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
Mario Zechner