Autonomous research agent with web search, source analysis, and report synthesis.
Built on Pi agent core. Available as CLI, programmatic API, and MCP server.
Features:
- 4 built-in tools: web_search, read_url, save_note, synthesize_report
- CLI with TUI and print modes
- Programmatic API via ResearchAgent class
- MCP server with 3 tools: research, quick_search, read_url
- Skills system for custom research behavior
- Automatic .env file loading for API keys
- Configurable max turns, output formats (markdown/JSON/bullet)
- Automatic report saving to research-output/
- Import photon-node from ESM entry point (photon_rs_bg.js) instead of CJS
entry, allowing Bun to embed WASM in compiled binaries
- Add photon.d.ts for TypeScript support of ESM entry
- Add scripts/build-binaries.sh for local binary builds
- Simplify GitHub workflow to use the build script
- Add binaries/ to gitignore
- Replace slow synchronous directory walking with fd for fuzzy file search
- Auto-download fd to ~/.pi/agent/tools/ if not found in PATH
- Performance improved from ~900ms to ~10ms per keystroke on large repos
- Remove minimatch dependency from tui package
- Graceful degradation if fd unavailable (empty results)
Fixes#69
- Create Pi Reader browser extension for Chrome/Firefox
- Chrome uses Side Panel API, Firefox uses Sidebar Action API
- Supports both browsers with separate manifests and unified codebase
- Built with mini-lit components and Tailwind CSS v4
- Features model selection dialog with Ollama support
- Hot reload development server watches both browser builds
- Add useDefineForClassFields: false to fix LitElement reactivity
- Generated from OpenRouter API and models.dev
- Includes models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter
- Provides type-safe model selection with autocomplete
- Generate models.generated.ts from models.json with proper types
- Categorize providers: OpenAI (Responses), OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, Gemini
- Create createLLM() factory with TypeScript overloads for type safety
- Auto-detect base URLs and environment variables for providers
- Support 353 models across 39 providers with full autocompletion
- Exclude generated file from git (rebuilt on npm build)
- Set up npm workspaces for three packages: pi-tui, pi-agent, and pi (pods)
- Implemented dual TypeScript configuration:
- Root tsconfig.json with path mappings for development and type checking
- Package-specific tsconfig.build.json for clean production builds
- Configured lockstep versioning with sync script for inter-package dependencies
- Added comprehensive documentation for development and publishing workflows
- All packages at version 0.5.0 ready for npm publishing
Emil