@taterdoge/pi-remember-model0.1.2

Persist the last selected model to Pi's settings.json and the thinking level to the plugin cache.

taterdoge Published 19 days ago MIT ~501 downloads/mo

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@taterdoge/pi-remember-model

Pi extension that persists the last selected model to Pi's global settings.json and the thinking level to the plugin's own cache, so every new session starts where you left off.

Install

pi install npm:@taterdoge/pi-remember-model

Or try without installing:

pi -e npm:@taterdoge/pi-remember-model

How it works

On model selection, writes defaultProvider and defaultModel to the global settings file (~/.pi/agent/settings.json, or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/settings.json)
On thinking level selection, writes a per-model entry in the plugin cache (~/.pi/agent/extensions/pi-remember-model/thinking-levels.json), keyed "provider/modelId", so a level one model cannot support never leaks into another model and Pi's own settings.json stays untouched
On model selection, re-applies that model's remembered level with pi.setThinkingLevel() — the cache is not a Pi setting, so nothing else reads it at boot
Existing settings keys are preserved (read-merge-write); a missing or invalid file is started fresh
Session-restore events (source: "restore") are ignored, so merely opening an old session never rewrites your default

Files

Model choice goes into Pi's own global settings — the same keys Pi reads at startup:

{
  "defaultProvider": "anthropic",
  "defaultModel": "claude-opus-4-6"
}

Thinking levels stay in the plugin directory ($PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/extensions/pi-remember-model/thinking-levels.json, default ~/.pi/agent/extensions/pi-remember-model/):

{
  "anthropic/claude-opus-4-6": "xhigh",
  "openai/gpt-5": "low"
}

pi.setThinkingLevel() has existed since Pi 0.76. On any supported Pi the extension remembers the model and re-applies the cached level when you switch back.

Note: Pi ≥ 0.76 already persists model/thinking-level choices natively; this extension is mainly useful on older Pi versions or as an explicit safety net.