Pi Auto Name

A Pi extension that gives sessions readable names and keeps those names aligned with the conversation.

How it works

• Assigns an immediate title derived locally from the first user prompt.
• Refines that title after the first completed agent run using conversation history.
• Refreshes the title after every three additional user messages by default.
• Sends only a bounded selection of user and assistant text to the naming model. Tool output and hidden reasoning are excluded.
• Stops managing a session when its name is changed manually with /name or from the resume picker.
• Leaves existing manually named sessions untouched.

Refreshes are based on conversation activity rather than wall-clock time, so idle sessions do not make unnecessary model calls.

Install

pi install npm:@jhlabs/pi-auto-name

Alternatively, install the latest source directly from GitHub:

pi install git:github.com/jhlabs/pi-auto-name

Restart Pi after installing, or run /reload in an existing Pi session.

Commands

/auto-name           Show status
/auto-name now       Refresh immediately from conversation history
/auto-name on        Enable and adopt the current session
/auto-name off       Stop changing the current session name
/auto-name every 5   Refresh every five additional user messages

State is stored in the session JSONL, so manual overrides and refresh cadence survive resume and reload.

Configuration

Use any authenticated Pi model for title generation:

pi --auto-name-model provider/model-id

The active Pi model is used by default. Change the refresh cadence at startup with:

pi --auto-name-every 5

Naming requests may consume tokens or incur provider costs. Each request uses at most 12,000 characters of bounded conversation history and asks for no more than 96 output tokens.

Development

npm install
npm run check
npm pack --dry-run

Developed against @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent 0.84.3.

License

MIT