pi-pr-upstream-status

Shows the open GitHub pull request for the current branch in Pi and can prompt the agent when new PR feedback or failing CI needs attention.

Use it when you work on branches with upstream PRs and want review comments, check status, and CI failures visible without leaving Pi.

Install

pi install npm:@badliveware/pi-pr-upstream-status

Requirements

• A Git checkout with a GitHub remote.
• Optional: GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN for private repositories, higher rate limits, unresolved review-thread filtering, and richer CI details.
• Optional: GitHub CLI (gh) as an additional private-repo auth fallback.

Without a token, public-repo lookups still work with anonymous GitHub API limits. Some review-thread and CI-log details may be unavailable.

What it shows

The extension adds a compact footer status with:

• check result: ✅, ❌, ⏳, or •
• comment count such as 💬3
• PR link such as #123 when supported by the terminal

It also emits pr-upstream:state for footer frameworks or other extensions that want structured PR status.

Quick use

/pr-status
/pr-status refresh
/pr-autosolve off

Auto-solve is on by default. Turn it off if you only want passive status:

/pr-autosolve off

How it works

The extension detects the current branch, finds the matching open GitHub PR, refreshes status periodically, and updates Pi's footer/status primitives.

When auto-solve is enabled, it can fetch new issue comments, unresolved review-thread comments, and failing CI context. If the agent is busy, the work is kept pending and shown in a user-only card with brief comment/check status. When Pi is idle and allowed to proceed, it queues a structured auto-solve message that gives the agent a turn to verify the feedback, fix relevant issues, run validation, and summarize what happened.

Guardrails prevent automatic auto-solve from notifying the agent immediately in fresh sessions, before checks complete, or when an older Pi process is already active in the same workspace. /pr-autosolve now runs a one-shot solve even when auto-solve is off or checks are still running; CI failure context is included once failures are available.

Commands

| Command | What it does | | --- | --- | | /pr-status | Show current PR status. | | /pr-status refresh | Refresh now. | | /pr-status on | Enable the periodic watcher. | | /pr-status off | Disable the periodic watcher. | | /pr-autosolve | Show auto-solve status and config path. | | /pr-autosolve on | Enable auto-solve and persist the choice. | | /pr-autosolve off | Disable auto-solve and persist the choice. | | /pr-autosolve now | Run a one-shot solve for current feedback and available CI failures, even when auto-solve is off or checks are still running. |

Auto-solve settings persist to:

~/.pi/agent/pr-upstream-status.json

Event payload

The extension emits:

pr-upstream:state

Payload includes the current branch, PR number/title/url, comment count, check state, head SHA, base repo, and auto-solve state.

Auto-solve prompts are delivered as Pi custom messages with:

pr-upstream:auto-solve

The message content contains the actionable instructions and summarized PR/CI context for the agent; structured details include the PR identity and feedback/CI counts for rendering or debugging.