@dreki-gg/pi-questionnaire

Tool-first questionnaire extension for pi.

It adds:

• a questionnaire tool for collecting 1-5 structured answers in one interaction
• a /questionnaire demo command powered by the same shared tabbed TUI flow

Install

pi install npm:@dreki-gg/pi-questionnaire

What it provides

| Feature | Name | Notes | |---|---|---| | Tool | questionnaire | Collects structured user answers with single/multi select + optional Other text | | Command | /questionnaire | Demo flow using Scope, Priority, Approach |

Input schema (summary)

{
  questions: Array<{
    id: string;
    label?: string;
    prompt: string;
    selectionMode?: 'single' | 'multiple';
    options: Array<{
      value: string;
      label: string;
      description?: string;
    }>;
    allowOther?: boolean; // defaults to true at runtime
  }> // min 1, max 5
}

Validation includes:

• 1-5 question limit
• non-empty option lists
• duplicate question id rejection
• duplicate option value rejection per question

Normalized output schema (summary)

{
  questions: NormalizedQuestion[];
  answers: Array<{
    questionId: string;
    questionLabel: string;
    selectedOptions: Array<{ value: string; label: string }>;
    otherText: string | null;
    wasOtherSelected: boolean;
  }>;
  context: string | null;
  cancelled: boolean;
}

Other answers are rendered explicitly as:

Other: "GraphQL"

The Review tab also includes an optional Anything else? field. Its trimmed value is returned as context, or null when left empty.

Keyboard model

• ← / →: switch tabs (question tabs + Review tab)
• ↑ / ↓: move option cursor (question tab) or row cursor (Review tab, including Anything else?)
• Space:
  • question tab: select/toggle option or enter Other input
  • review tab: jump to the selected question for editing, or open Anything else?
• r: jump to Review tab
• Esc hierarchy:
  1. exit Other or Anything else? input mode
  2. from Review, go back to the prior question tab
  3. from question tab outermost, cancel questionnaire
• Enter:
  • in an editor: submit the current text
  • in Review: submit only when all required answers are valid

Example tool call

{
  "name": "questionnaire",
  "arguments": {
    "questions": [
      {
        "id": "scope",
        "label": "Scope",
        "prompt": "What is the project scope?",
        "selectionMode": "single",
        "options": [
          { "value": "low", "label": "Low" },
          { "value": "high", "label": "High" }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "priority",
        "label": "Priority",
        "prompt": "What priority should we assign?",
        "selectionMode": "single",
        "options": [
          { "value": "p0", "label": "P0" },
          { "value": "p1", "label": "P1" }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Example result summaries

Completed (collapsed):

✓ Scope: High • Priority: P1 • Approach: Other: "GraphQL"

Cancelled:

⚠ Cancelled

Modes

The questionnaire runs in whatever UI Pi provides:

• Interactive (TUI): the tabbed component with keyboard navigation described above.
• RPC (for example the Pi VS Code panel): one dialog per question. Select lists the options, an Other choice opens a text input, a multi-select question toggles options and finishes on Done, and a final input collects the optional Anything else? context. ctx.ui.custom() is undefined outside the TUI, which is why RPC mode uses Pi's dialog methods instead.

The result shape is identical in both modes.

Cancellation and non-interactive behavior

• User cancellation is not treated as an error (cancelled: true in details).
• Modes without a UI (ctx.hasUI === false) return an immediate error result (isError: true).