pi-stash

Persistent editor draft stashes for pi.

pi-stash saves unsent editor text per exact working directory under the configured Pi agent directory's pi-stash/ subtree, then applies or pops it without submitting it to a model. Recognized temporary clipboard images are copied into private stash storage so later editor references survive OS cleanup.

Features

• Save, apply, or pop unsent drafts without submitting them to a model.
• List, filter, preview, pop, drop, or clear newest-first entries.
• Isolate storage by exact working directory, including linked worktrees.
• Persist recognized temporary clipboard images; ignore other absolute paths.
• Protect data with private permissions, atomic writes, locking, crash recovery, and corruption quarantine.
• Provide native configurable shortcuts without requiring another extension.

Install

Security: Pi does not sandbox extensions. pi-stash runs with Pi's full local privileges. Review the package before installing. Runtime code makes no network requests, but this is not a sandbox boundary.

pi install npm:@sagmans/pi-stash

Install from npm so Pi offers updates only after a published release. Supported runtime: macOS or Linux, Node.js >=22.19.0, Pi 0.87.0 or 1.1.0, interactive TUI mode. Native Windows is unsupported because storage relies on POSIX ownership and permission guarantees.

Oh My Pi hosts the same package through its pi-compatible extension loader:

omp plugin install @sagmans/pi-stash

Oh My Pi support is contract-level: the extension matches Oh My Pi's documented extension context and carries contract tests for it, but the packaged two-launch runtime smoke has not been completed under Oh My Pi. Report divergent behavior through the bug channel.

Usage

/stash <draft> persists its argument without reading or clearing current editor. Bare /stash shows usage. Shortcut stash persists current editor and clears it only after successful persistence.

Index 0 is newest. Selectors accept a displayed index or exact entry ID. Apply and pop require an empty editor; omitted selectors use the newest entry. Apply keeps the entry, while pop removes it. The list overlay pops on confirmation and can also drop entries from preview. Drop and confirmed clear queue owned images for deletion.

A popped draft can still reference images copied into private stash storage, so pi-stash retains those images after removing the entry. /stash-cleanup-images keeps retained images referenced by the current editor, deletes unreferenced ones, and retries failed image deletion. It never deletes draft text or stash entries. Close other Pi sessions for the same scope first because cleanup can inspect only the current editor.

Startup migrates the current working directory from either historical key format because Pi supplies that scope's authoritative path. /stash-migrate also sweeps globally reversible, untruncated v2 keys. Other non-injective v1 or truncated keys, competing sources, malformed state, and destination conflicts remain untouched and are listed for private manual review.

The overlay supports configured navigation and confirmation keys, typing to filter, preview, F5 refresh, and d to drop.

Shortcut configuration

Override either native shortcut in $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/pi-stash/config.json (normally ~/.pi/agent/pi-stash/config.json):

{
  "keybindings": {
    "stash": "ctrl+alt+s",
    "list": "ctrl+alt+l"
  }
}

A missing override file falls back to the config.json shipped with the package; omitted keys fall back to that file's values. Unknown fields, malformed JSON, unsafe files, invalid shortcuts, and duplicate physical shortcuts fail extension loading. Run /reload after changing config.

Limits

• Draft count and text size have no application limit; private storage capacity is the bound.
• Widget: 5 entry rows. Overlay list: 10 entry rows. Wrapped preview: 10 terminal rows.
• Persisted images: 10 distinct images per draft, 20 MiB each, 50 MiB total distinct bytes.
• Worktree storage key: at most 200 UTF-8 bytes before file or directory suffixes.

Storage, privacy, and recovery

Stashes are local plaintext with private POSIX permissions and no automatic expiry. pi-stash rejects unsafe paths and ownership, preserves unsupported schemas, quarantines invalid current data, and retains failed cleanup for retry.

Read storage and recovery before inspecting or changing stash files. Never share stash data or raw terminal captures without redaction.

Documentation

• Storage and recovery
• Maintainer development and smoke test
• Architecture decisions and domain language
• Participation, security, releases, and changelog

License

MIT