pi-tps-was-taken

A pi coding agent extension that displays live tokens-per-second (TPS) in the footer during AI response generation.

Features

• Real-time streaming TPS — updates continuously as tokens are generated
• Animated spinner — rotating ⠋⠙⠹⠸⠼⠴⠦⠧⠇⠏ frames during generation
• Color-coded performance — green (≥100 t/s), yellow (30–100 t/s), red (<30 t/s)
• Compact display — token counts in K notation (e.g. 1.2k), shortened to t/s
• Completion summary — checkmark with final stats: tps · tokens in X.Xs

Display

Streaming:

⠇ 127.3 t/s ↓ 1.2k tokens

Completed:

✓ 127.3 t/s · 1.2k tokens in 9.4s

Installation

Via pi install (recommended)

pi install npm:pi-tps-was-taken

This installs the package and registers it in pi's settings automatically. Then reload pi with /reload.

How It Works

The extension subscribes to four pi events:

| Event | Purpose | |-------|---------| | agent_start | Clears state on new prompt | | message_start | Records start time, begins spinner animation | | message_update | Calculates and displays live TPS from incremental usage.output | | message_end | Shows final average TPS, stops spinner |

Uses ctx.ui.setStatus("tps", ...) to append TPS to the existing footer (pwd, context %, model) instead of replacing it.

Requirements

• pi coding agent with TUI support
• Local llama.cpp model (streaming usage updates must be incremental, not deferred to stream end)

License

MIT