pi-ask-user

A Pi package that adds an interactive ask_user tool for collecting user decisions during an agent run.

Demo

High-quality video: ask-user-demo.mp4

Features

• Single-select option lists
• Multi-select option lists
• Optional freeform responses
• Context display support
• Graceful fallback when interactive UI is unavailable
• Bundled ask-user skill for mandatory decision-gating in high-stakes or ambiguous tasks

Bundled skill: ask-user

This package now ships a skill at skills/ask-user/SKILL.md that nudges/mandates the agent to use ask_user when:

• architectural trade-offs are high impact
• requirements are ambiguous or conflicting
• assumptions would materially change implementation

The skill follows a "decision handshake" flow:

1. Gather evidence and summarize context
2. Ask one focused question via ask_user
3. Wait for explicit user choice
4. Confirm the decision, then proceed

See: skills/ask-user/references/ask-user-skill-extension-spec.md.

Install

pi install npm:pi-ask-user

Tool name

The registered tool name is:

• ask_user

Example usage shape

{
  "question": "Which option should we use?",
  "context": "We are choosing a deploy target.",
  "options": [
    "staging",
    { "title": "production", "description": "Customer-facing" }
  ],
  "allowMultiple": false,
  "allowFreeform": true
}