pi-claude-style-tui

A Pi package that provides a Claude Code-inspired header, editor, footer, theme, and turn telemetry.

Installation

Install the package from npm:

pi install npm:pi-claude-style-tui

To try it without adding it to your Pi settings:

pi -e npm:pi-claude-style-tui

Update or remove the package:

pi update npm:pi-claude-style-tui
pi remove npm:pi-claude-style-tui

Features

• Compact single-column welcome card
• Claude Code-inspired dark palette and prompt styling
• Straight input separators and ❯ prompt markers
• Safe ● markers for prose-first Assistant responses without breaking block Markdown
• Compact ● Tool(args) / └ result rows for Pi-owned built-in tools, with expandable output
• Configurable footer with ordered Claude/Pi fields for model, context, workspace, session, usage, cache, cost, and duration
• Pi-compatible context alerts (>70% warning, >90% error), cache totals, and session cost
• Claude-style spinner verbs, mirrored ✻ working-glyph animation, delayed elapsed time, and estimated output-token count
• Persistent <verb> for <duration> turn summaries
• Slash-command highlighting

Development

npm install
npm run check
npm run typecheck
npm test

Run directly from the checkout:

pi -e .

Publishing

Validate the package contents and release checks before publishing:

npm pack --dry-run
npm publish --access public

npm publish validates formatting, lint, import order, typecheck, and tests through the prepublishOnly script.

Commands

• /exit — exit Pi; equivalent to /quit
• /statusline — toggle and reorder footer fields (Space, ←/→, Enter); saves to ~/.pi/agent/claude-code-tui.json
• /context — show a Claude-style context usage bar
• /reduced-motion [on|off] — disable shimmer and use a static working indicator; saves to the same config file
  • Fields: model, context, directory, cache, cost, session name/ID, transcript path, version, context remaining/window, input/output tokens, duration, and >200k warning

License

MIT