quit-aliases

A tiny pi extension that adds more ways to exit.

Triggers

| Input | When it exits | | --- | --- | | /exit | Slash command (appears in / autocomplete + command list) | | exit | Bare word, exact match (trimmed, case-insensitive) | | quit | Bare word, exact match | | :q | Bare word, exact match |

/quit (pi's built-in) is untouched and still works.

All four triggers call ctx.shutdown() — pi's documented graceful shutdown, available in all contexts (event handlers, tools, commands, shortcuts).

Matching rules (bare words)

• The whole input must equal the trigger word, after trimming and lowercasing. So Exit, QUIT, :Q all exit; exit now, please quit, just :q it do not exit (they go to the agent as normal messages).
• Option B — any time: works even while the agent is generating. The shutdown aborts the in-flight stream gracefully.
• event.source === "extension" is skipped, so another extension calling sendUserMessage("exit") cannot accidentally trigger an exit.

How it works

Two hooks:

1. pi.registerCommand("exit", …) — registers /exit. No built-in /exit exists, so it registers cleanly (no /exit:1//exit:2 suffix). Its handler calls ctx.shutdown().
2. pi.on("input", …) — catches the bare words. The input event fires after the slash-command check (so bare words with no / reach it) and before skill/template expansion. On a match it calls ctx.shutdown() and returns { action: "handled" } so the word is never sent to the agent.

Install

Install from npm (global, auto-discovered):

pi install npm:pi-quit-aliases

Project-local (writes to .pi/settings.json, shared with your team):

pi install -l npm:pi-quit-aliases

Or install from git:

pi install git:github.com/ymy88/pi-quit-aliases

Then in pi: run /reload (or restart pi) to load it.

Verify

After /reload:

• /exit → exits
• exit, quit, :q, Exit, QUIT → each exits
• exit now → does not exit (goes to the agent)
• /quit → still exits (built-in, untouched)