Pi Forge

Matte graphite, molten copper, and brushed-steel visual identity for Pi.

pi-forge is a visual package only. It adds the forge theme plus a Forge-gated atmosphere extension. It does not change prompts, tools, models, thinking level, autocomplete, or workflow.

What You Get

One temperature system — cold iron → graphite → copper → white-hot — drives every animated surface, with one rule: strike fast, cool slow.

• forge theme: graphite shell, copper heat, wheat text, cool steel contrast.
• Ignition header: the π maker's-mark heats from cold graphite to a white-hot strike on session start, then settles into its resting gradient (~1.2s, then the timer stops — zero idle cost).
• Heat line: a stepped copper hairline under the wordmark, hot at the left and cooling to the right.
• Asymmetric working ember: 4 fast frames up to white-hot, 7 slow frames cooling through copper into steel, 3 cold rest beats.
• Forging vocabulary: the working message walks a real forging sequence one stage per turn — heating the stock… → drawing out… → upsetting… → … → quenching….
• Terminal title pulse: fixed ⚒ anchor with an animating spark — strike → ember → cool → rest.
• Collapsed thinking label: tempering….
• /forge-atmosphere [on|off] command (on re-runs the ignition).

Footer is untouched so packages such as pi-powerline-footer can keep owning it.

Install

From npm after publish:

pi install npm:@baretread/pi-forge

From GitHub:

pi install git:github.com/BareTread/pi-forge

From this package checkout:

pi install .

From another checkout that contains this folder:

pi install ./path/to/pi-forge

Temporary test without installing:

pi -e .

Enable

Select the theme in Pi:

/settings → Theme → forge
/reload

The atmosphere extension is intentionally dormant unless the active theme is forge.

Commands

/forge-atmosphere        show current state
/forge-atmosphere on     apply Forge atmosphere
/forge-atmosphere off    restore default visual chrome

Safety Boundary

This package is visual-only:

• no prompt injection
• no custom tools
• no model changes
• no thinking-level changes
• no active-tool changes
• no footer replacement
• no package overrides
• no personal settings or paths

Package Notes

Pi packages load resources from package.json under the pi key. This package exposes:

{
  "pi": {
    "extensions": ["./extensions"],
    "themes": ["./themes"],
    "video": "https://unpkg.com/@baretread/[email protected]/assets/preview.mp4",
    "image": "https://unpkg.com/@baretread/[email protected]/assets/preview.png"
  }
}

The Pi package gallery discovers packages with the pi-package keyword. Video takes precedence over the static image fallback.

Uninstall

pi remove npm:@baretread/pi-forge

If installed from GitHub/local path, remove that matching package source from Pi settings.