minimal-footer

A minimal custom footer for pi.

It replaces pi's built-in footer with a cleaner two-line layout that focuses on the information I care about most:

• current git branch
• TLH-style git dirty counts, ahead/behind counts, and optional PR number
• current repo name
• current context percentage
• red DUMB ZONE indicator when context usage is above 200k tokens
• current model and thinking level
• OpenAI Codex 5-hour and 7-day usage when available
• xp marker when Pi experimental features are enabled

Layout

On wide terminals it renders two lines:

<git-branch> · <git-status>                          <repo-name>
<context-%>                                     <model> <thinking>

Example:

fix/remove-detached-image-tasks                     SendItToMy
44.1%                                              gpt-5.4 high

When the project is trusted and the repo has local or remote git state, the top-left line includes the same cached summary as git-footer:

main · +1 ~2 ?3 ↑1 • PR #42

The markers are ! conflicts, + staged, ~ unstaged, ? untracked, ↑ ahead, and ↓ behind. PR numbers are fetched best-effort with gh pr view. Git polling is skipped until Pi reports that the project is trusted, and git status is run with fsmonitor disabled.

When context usage is above 200k tokens, the bottom-left line includes a red warning:

44.1% · DUMB ZONE

When using openai-codex, the bottom-left line also includes subscription usage:

44.1% · 5h 12% · 7d 38%

When PI_EXPERIMENTAL=1, the bottom-left line also includes an experimental marker:

44.1% · xp

On narrow terminals it falls back to one item per line.

Install

Standalone npm package

pi install npm:@diegopetrucci/pi-minimal-footer

Collection package

pi install npm:@diegopetrucci/pi-extensions

GitHub package

pi install git:github.com/diegopetrucci/pi-extensions

Then reload pi:

/reload

Configuration

Config files are merged, with project config overriding global config:

• ~/.pi/agent/extensions/minimal-footer.json
• <project>/.pi/minimal-footer.json

Project config is only read after Pi reports that the project is trusted.

A ready-to-copy sample file is included at minimal-footer.example.json.

Example:

{
  "context": {
    "showPercent": true,
    "dumbZone": {
      "enabled": true,
      "thresholdTokens": 200000,
      "label": "DUMB ZONE",
      "color": "error"
    }
  },
  "codexUsage": {
    "enabled": true,
    "cacheTtlMs": 300000,
    "requestTimeoutMs": 10000,
    "windows": {
      "primary": {
        "enabled": true,
        "label": "5h"
      },
      "secondary": {
        "enabled": true,
        "label": "7d"
      }
    }
  },
  "experimentalMarker": {
    "enabled": true,
    "label": "xp",
    "color": "warning"
  },
  "gitStatus": {
    "enabled": true,
    "refreshIntervalMs": 8000,
    "gitTimeoutMs": 1500,
    "ghTimeoutMs": 3000
  }
}

Disable DUMB ZONE:

{
  "context": {
    "dumbZone": {
      "enabled": false
    }
  }
}

Disable OpenAI Codex session-limit usage entirely:

{
  "codexUsage": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

Disable one session-limit window:

{
  "codexUsage": {
    "windows": {
      "secondary": {
        "enabled": false
      }
    }
  }
}

Disable the experimental-features marker:

{
  "experimentalMarker": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

Disable git dirty/ahead/PR status:

{
  "gitStatus": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

Config fields

• context.showPercent: show the context percentage
• context.dumbZone.enabled: show DUMB ZONE when context tokens exceed the threshold
• context.dumbZone.thresholdTokens: token threshold for DUMB ZONE
• context.dumbZone.label: warning text
• context.dumbZone.color: theme color for the warning (error, warning, accent, text, or dim)
• codexUsage.enabled: show OpenAI Codex session-limit usage when using openai-codex
• codexUsage.cacheTtlMs: in-memory usage cache duration
• codexUsage.requestTimeoutMs: usage request timeout
• codexUsage.windows.primary.enabled: show the primary usage window
• codexUsage.windows.primary.label: label for the primary usage window
• codexUsage.windows.secondary.enabled: show the secondary usage window
• codexUsage.windows.secondary.label: label for the secondary usage window
• experimentalMarker.enabled: show the marker when PI_EXPERIMENTAL=1
• experimentalMarker.label: marker text
• experimentalMarker.color: theme color for the marker (error, warning, accent, text, or dim)
• gitStatus.enabled: show cached git dirty counts, ahead/behind counts, and optional PR number for trusted projects
• gitStatus.refreshIntervalMs: background git status refresh interval
• gitStatus.gitTimeoutMs: timeout for git status --porcelain=v2 --branch
• gitStatus.ghTimeoutMs: timeout for best-effort gh pr view

What it shows

• Top left: current git branch plus dirty/ahead/PR status when available
• Top right: current repo directory name
• Bottom left: current context usage percentage, plus red DUMB ZONE above 200k context tokens
• Bottom left on openai-codex: current context usage percentage plus 5-hour and 7-day Codex usage
• Bottom left with PI_EXPERIMENTAL=1: current context usage percentage plus xp
• Bottom right: model id and thinking level

Publishing notes

This extension also lives inside the broader pi-extensions collection, but it is set up to be publishable as its own npm package too.

Notes

• Replaces pi's built-in footer entirely.
• Uses pi footer data for git branch updates, plus background cached git/gh checks for dirty counts and PR number after project trust is granted.
• Shows only context percentage, not context window size.
• Shows DUMB ZONE only while context usage is above 200k tokens.
• Shows the model id rather than a provider-specific display label.
• Shows xp when PI_EXPERIMENTAL=1.
• For openai-codex, reads pi's stored OAuth login and fetches usage from ChatGPT's backend usage endpoint.
• Usage is cached briefly in memory and refreshed after turns.