pi-dumb-zone

A minimal Pi extension that raises a red warning when an assistant response contains a targeted strong-agreement phrase such as “you are absolutely right”.

It is intentionally a deterministic lexical heuristic:

• no network calls
• no secondary model calls
• no persistence
• no semantic claims

Inspiration

This extension was inspired by Context Engineering with Dex Horthy, published by The Pragmatic Engineer. Thanks to Dex Horthy for the context-engineering perspective that prompted it.

Install

Install from npm with Pi:

pi install npm:@ingin97/pi-dumb-zone

For a project-local install, use:

pi install npm:@ingin97/pi-dumb-zone -l

Then restart Pi or reload with /reload.

Behavior

The extension appends a green status dot after the context indicator in Pi's default footer. At 100k context tokens, it changes that status to yellow, and shows one warning notification per session. A detected phrase takes priority and switches the status dot to red. Its notification displays the matched phrase, so the trigger is explicit.

Matching is case-insensitive and allows flexible whitespace. It recognizes targeted strong-agreement phrases such as you are absolutely right, you're right to question that, that's actually the better approach, exactly — the key thing is, 100%, I couldn't agree more, and that's an excellent point (including curly apostrophes). Only finalized assistant messages are inspected, so streamed text cannot produce duplicate alerts.

False positives are expected. This extension is an observability joke, not a measure of intelligence, alignment, or response quality.

License

MIT