@howaboua/pi-memories

Writes a small set of memory candidates when Pi exits, then leaves the final decision to you. There is no database, vector store, or hidden profile: candidates go to a plain Markdown inbox for manual review.

Install

pi install npm:@howaboua/pi-memories

How it works

The worker runs only for a real Pi shutdown (session_shutdown with reason quit), not reloads, new sessions, resumes, or forks. It uses the best context available:

1. an OpenAI native compaction window
2. a normal Pi compaction summary
3. the recent conversation when no compaction exists

It starts an ephemeral Pi process with --no-session --no-skills --no-tools. Normal context files remain available unless disabled in config, which lets the worker compare candidates with existing global and project instructions.

Candidates are appended to ~/.pi/agent/memory-inbox.md. Short sessions without compaction are skipped by default, and output equal to No durable memories. is not written.

Review

Run /memory-review. The command fills the editor with a review prompt that asks the agent to promote only durable, non-sensitive information into the appropriate global or project AGENTS.md, merge duplicates, and empty the inbox when finished.

The review is deliberately manual. Inbox entries are candidates, not truth.

Configuration

The extension creates ~/.pi/agent/pi-memories.json on first load.

| Option | Default | Purpose | |---|---|---| | enabled | true | Enable shutdown distillation. | | model | gpt-5.4 | Model passed to the ephemeral Pi process. | | thinking | low | Thinking level, from off through max. | | inboxPath | ~/.pi/agent/memory-inbox.md | Destination for candidates and failure comments. | | prompt | built-in distillation prompt | Replace the worker prompt. | | timeoutMs | 120000 | Maximum worker runtime. | | includeProjectContext | true | Include Pi's normal context files; false passes --no-context-files. | | minUserMessagesWithoutBlob | 3 | Skip shorter sessions when no compaction exists. |

Use a provider/model string available in your Pi setup when overriding model.