@hyxi/pi-attach

A Pi extension that adds persistent, bounded context from explicit file and URL attachment mentions without changing the user's original message.

Installation

pi install npm:@hyxi/pi-attach

Configuration

Configure globally in ~/.pi/agent/extensions/attach.json or, for trusted projects, in .pi/extensions/attach.json. Project settings override global settings.

{
  "perAttachLength": 1000,
  "attachmentProcessingTimeoutSeconds": 45,
  "maxAttachmentConcurrency": 4,
  "temporaryDirectory": "/tmp"
}

| JSON key | Type | Default | Description | | ------------------------------------ | ---------------- | ----------: | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | perAttachLength | integer >= 0 | 500 | Maximum Unicode code points in each ordinary attachment preview. | | attachmentProcessingTimeoutSeconds | number >= 0 | 30 | Deadline for processing one input; 0 disables the deadline. | | maxAttachmentConcurrency | integer > 0 | 4 | Maximum number of file or URL attachments processed concurrently. | | temporaryDirectory | non-empty string | OS temp dir | Base directory for private per-conversion pi-attach-* directories. |

Mentions

| Form | Example | Resolves to | | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | Relative file | @src/index.ts | A file relative to Pi's current working directory | | Absolute file | @/tmp/report.txt | An absolute local file | | Home-relative file | @~/notes/todo.md | A file relative to the current user's home directory | | Quoted file | @"docs/project plan.md" | A path containing whitespace | | Document | @reports/annual.pdf | A supported document converted locally to Markdown | | URL | @https://example.com/article | HTTP(S) content negotiated or converted to Markdown | | Single line | @src/index.ts:12 or @src/index.ts#L12 | One line from text or converted Markdown | | Line range | @src/index.ts:12-24 or @src/index.ts#L12-24 | An inclusive line range |

A mention must begin at the start of the input or after whitespace. Embedded mentions such as [email protected] are ignored, as are mentions inside quoted strings, inline or fenced code, dollar-delimited math, and \(...\) or \[...\] math. Only mentions that resolve successfully become attachments.

Supported File Formats

Markit converts supported documents and archives to Markdown locally.

| Category | Supported extensions | | --------- | ------------------------------------------ | | Documents | .pdf, .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .epub | | Archives | .zip |

UTF-8 text and source code are read directly with source-accurate content and support :1 and #L1 line selectors.

URL Processing

For @http://... and @https://... mentions, Markit requests Markdown first. URI fragments, including fragments such as #L12-24, are passed to the server unchanged and are never interpreted as attachment line selectors. Markit uses a Markdown response directly; for HTML it checks for an advertised Markdown source, VitePress Markdown, or a root llms.txt, then converts the HTML to Markdown when no Markdown source is available. Other supported response formats are converted according to their content type or URL extension.

URL mentions perform network requests and may follow redirects. Attach only URLs you trust the local Pi process to access.

How It Works

On each user input, the extension scans for supported mentions, resolves files and URLs, reads ordinary text directly, and sends convertible sources to a cancellable Markit child process. Generated Markdown is saved to a private temporary parsed.md file, then bounded and rendered into one persistent Pi custom message with customType: "attach-context" before the agent starts. The original text remains unchanged.

Extracted content is treated as untrusted text rather than a faithful rendering or system instruction.