@hank-warren/pi-thinking-step0.1.0

Step the thinking level up or down one notch with Alt+= / Alt+-, skipping levels the model does not support.

hank-warren Published 1 month ago MIT ~134 downloads/mo

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@hank-warren/pi-thinking-step

Step the thinking level up or down one notch with Alt+= and Alt+-, instead of cycling through every level with Shift+Tab to get back to the one below.

Install

pi install npm:@hank-warren/pi-thinking-step

Try it without installing:

pi -e npm:@hank-warren/pi-thinking-step

Usage

Key	Action
Alt+=	Thinking level up (`=` shares a key with `+`)
Alt+-	Thinking level down

Levels run off → minimal → low → medium → high → xhigh → max.

Unsupported levels are skipped. Pi clamps a requested level to what the current model supports, and the shortcut keeps stepping until the effective level actually changes. A model without minimal goes straight from low to off; one with max but not xhigh goes straight from high to max.
No wrap-around. At the model's top or bottom level the key does nothing and says so: Thinking: high (limit). A non-reasoning model only has off.
Session only. Like Shift+Tab, a step changes the current session. To make a level the default, open /thinking and press Ctrl+S there.

Terminal setup

The keys are Alt (Meta) chords. On macOS the terminal must send Option as Meta, or Option+= types ≠ and Option+- types –:

Terminal.app: Settings → Profiles → Keyboard → "Use Option as Meta key"
iTerm2: Settings → Profiles → Keys → Left/Right Option key → "Esc+"
Ghostty: macos-option-as-alt = true

Check /hotkeys for the Extensions section to confirm both keys are registered.