pi-choices

A Pi extension that presents structured question forms inside a Pi agent session — letting the agent collect user decisions before continuing.

Why

When an agent needs multiple decisions from you (feature flags, configuration choices, design options), the normal back-and-forth conversation is slow and easy to lose track of. pi-choices pops up a focused TUI form, collects all answers, then returns structured data so the agent can proceed.

Question types

Radio — single choice

Which DELETE scope should be protected?
  ● All DELETE statements
  ○ Only DELETE without WHERE clause

Checkbox — multiple choice (space to toggle, enter to confirm)

Which features do you want to include?
  ☑ Session Library
  ☑ Diagram Gallery
  ☐ Translation Studio
  ☑ MCP Browser

Input — free text

What should the default target language be?
  > Chinese _

All three types support an "Other…" option (allowOther: true) that expands into a free-text field when selected.

Questions are shown one at a time with a Question N / Total progress indicator.

Usage — agent tool call

The extension registers a pi_choices tool. The agent calls it like:

{
  "questions": [
    {
      "type": "radio",
      "id": "delete_scope",
      "question": "Which DELETE scope should be protected?",
      "options": ["All DELETE statements", "Only DELETE without WHERE clause"]
    },
    {
      "type": "checkbox",
      "id": "features",
      "question": "Which features do you want to include?",
      "options": ["Session Library", "Diagram Gallery", "Translation Studio", "MCP Browser"]
    },
    {
      "type": "input",
      "id": "default_lang",
      "question": "What should the default target language be?",
      "placeholder": "e.g. Chinese"
    }
  ]
}

Returns:

{
  "delete_scope": "All DELETE statements",
  "features": ["Session Library", "Diagram Gallery", "MCP Browser"],
  "default_lang": "Chinese"
}

If the user presses Esc at any point, the tool returns "User cancelled the choices form.".

Usage — other extensions (bridge)

pi-choices exports a bridge so other packages can use it without import coupling:

import type { ChoicesBridge } from "pi-choices/lib/choices.ts";

const CHOICES_BRIDGE_KEY = Symbol.for("pi-choices.bridge.v1");
const bridge = (globalThis as any)[CHOICES_BRIDGE_KEY] as ChoicesBridge | undefined;

if (bridge) {
  const answers = await bridge.ask(ctx, [
    { type: "radio", id: "confirm", question: "Proceed?", options: ["Yes", "No"] },
  ]);
}

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Installation

pi install npm:pi-choices

Or from GitHub:

pi install git:github.com/SeiyunSky/pi-choice

Requirements

• Pi >= 0.85.0
• Node.js >= 18

License

MIT