pi-answer

日本語

Extract questions from the last assistant message and answer them in an interactive Q&A TUI.

Port of mitsuhiko/agent-stuff answer.ts.

Install

pi install npm:@335g/pi-answer

pi install writes to the user settings (~/.pi/agent/settings.json). Add -l to write to the project settings (.pi/settings.json) instead.

Usage

• /answer — extract questions from the last assistant message
• /answer 2 — extract from the assistant message before that (3, 4, ... go further back)
• ctrl+. — same as /answer

Flow: questions are extracted with the configured extraction model (the session model by default), shown one at a time in a box, followed by a free-space step for notes, then reviewed as a whole, then submitted as one message that triggers a turn.

Keys:

• Answering: Tab/Enter next, Shift+Tab prev, Shift+Enter newline, 1-9 insert an option, Ctrl+X exclude the question, Esc cancel
• Review: Enter/y submit, Esc/n back to the first question, l to the last question
• Cancel dialog: Enter/y discard, Esc/n keep editing. The dialog only appears when something has been entered; with empty answers Esc discards immediately.

The extraction model may attach options (2-4 short answers) to a question. They are listed under it and inserted at the cursor with 1-9, but only while the answer is empty, so digits stay typeable and you can append an annotation after picking one (はい -> はい、ただし本番のみ). Ctrl+X drops the question; it is not added to the message and the remaining questions are renumbered.

Configuration

pi-answer.json, read on every /answer, so no restart is needed. A project file overrides the global one key by key, and is only read for trusted projects (ctx.isProjectTrusted()):

| Location | Scope | |----------|-------| | ~/.pi/agent/pi-answer.json | global | | .pi/pi-answer.json | project |

{ "lang": "ja_JP.UTF-8", "model": "anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5" }

• lang — locale in the same format as LANG (e.g. ja_JP.UTF-8); only the language prefix matters. Unset: LC_ALL, then LANG.
• model — extraction model as provider/modelId or bare modelId. Unset: the session model. If it matches no available model, a warning is shown and the session model is used.

Submitted text is a numbered markdown block (### Q1: ... / Context: ... / Answer: ...), followed by a ### Notes section when the free-space step has text. Unanswered questions are omitted from the message, so a gap in the numbering means "skipped". If nothing was answered and no notes were written, nothing is sent (No answers to submit). The review screen is that message verbatim — the same string is rendered and sent, with no truncation and no placeholder lines.

The wrapper forwards TUI focus to the inner editor so the editor emits CURSOR_MARKER. That keeps the IME preedit (unconverted Japanese input) on the answer line instead of at the bottom of the box.