pi-skills-anywhere

Invoke Pi skills from anywhere: /name commands for every skill, a mid-sentence slash popup, and in-place expansion of /name tokens and <skill> tags.

Packages

Package details

extension

Install pi-skills-anywhere from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest.

npm repohome report
$ pi install npm:pi-skills-anywhere
Package
pi-skills-anywhere
Version
0.1.1
Published
Oct 21, 2026
Downloads
512/mo · 12/wk
Author
spranit
License
MIT
Types
extension
Size
18.3 KB
Dependencies
0 dependencies · 1 peer
Pi manifest JSON
{
  "extensions": [
    "./src/skill-tags.ts"
  ]
}

Security note

Pi packages can execute code and influence agent behavior. Review the source before installing third-party packages.

README

pi-skills-anywhere

Invoke Pi skills from anywhere in a prompt.

  • /name args — every discovered skill is a command, listed in the / menu with its description.
  • / mid-sentence — typing / anywhere in the composer pops up the skill menu; it filters as you type, and Enter inserts the skill without submitting, so you keep writing your sentence.
  • Bare /name tokens — typed without the popup, they expand into the skill's full instructions on send.
  • <skill name="x"/> tags — expand on send, like /skill:name without the start-of-message restriction.
  • Hidden skills — disable-model-invocation: true skills resolve in every path.
  • Project skills — discovered from .pi/skills/ and .agents/skills/ walking up to the repository root, and gated on project trust.

Install

pi install npm:pi-skills-anywhere

Or try it once without installing:

pi -e git:github.com/sarthakpranit/pi-skills-anywhere

Dedupe the menu (recommended)

Pi lists every skill as /skill:name by default (enableSkillCommands, on out of the box). This package registers the same skills as /name, so each skill appears twice in the start-of-message / menu. To keep one clean set, set in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json:

{ "enableSkillCommands": false }

The extension reminds you at startup until you flip it. It never writes your settings itself.

Compatibility and known limits

  • Requires Pi 1.3.x (peer dependency ^1.3.0).
  • The mid-sentence popup reaches a private runtime method on Pi's editor. It is feature-detected and fails soft: on an incompatible Pi version the popup silently stops appearing while commands, tokens, and tags keep working.
  • In pi -p (print mode), start-of-message /name args command dispatch hits a Pi lifecycle quirk in the extension runtime; interactive mode is unaffected.
  • A file whose name exactly matches a skill name can be mis-selected from a path-completion popup in rare cases.
  • Expansion replaces the skill tag or token with the full SKILL.md body; the model still chooses to follow it.

Releases

Push a v* tag (git tag v0.1.1 && git push origin v0.1.1); CI publishes to npm with provenance.

Test

bun install && bun test

Covers command registration, mid-text token and tag expansion, URL/path guards, passthrough, hidden-skill resolution, and command dispatch.

License

MIT