pi-little-coder

A curated subset of little-coder's extension layer, NOT little-coder-in-a-box.

This package ships extensions and skill-injection content extracted from little-coder (v1.20.0). It is a pi package: install it into your pi install and pi's launcher will auto-load the shipped extensions.

It does not include the little-coder launcher or any of the launcher-level wiring that makes little-coder behave as it does. Several behaviours you may be used to come from patching pi itself or from launcher-level code in bin/, not from extensions — see Behavioral differences outside the little-coder launcher below.

Install

npm install pi-little-coder

pi will auto-discover and load the shipped extensions on next launch.

What's Included

Extensions (28)

• bg-shell
• browser
• checkpoint
• clear-command
• context-watchdog
• deep-research
• extensions-info
• extra-tools
• finalize-warn
• knowledge-inject
• llama-cpp-provider
• output-parser
• permission-gate
• phase-model
• plan-mode
• prompt-history
• quality-monitor
• read-guard
• read-guard-edit
• shell-session
• shortcuts-help
• skill-inject
• subagent
• thinking-budget
• tool-gating
• turn-cap
• update-notice
• write-guard

Skill categories (3)

• tools
• knowledge
• protocols

These skills/ subdirectories are bundled for use by the skill-inject and knowledge-inject extensions; they are not standalone pi skills.

Behavioral differences outside the little-coder launcher

A number of little-coder behaviours are not shipped in this package because they live in launcher-level code, not in extensions:

• pi source patching — scripts/patch-pi.mjs re-applies small source edits to the installed @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent on every launch (e.g. suppressing pi's bare "Operation aborted" result marker). This is patching pi itself, not extending it. Outside the little-coder launcher those edits are absent, so you may see that marker surface in aborted runs.

• Extension loading order — little-coder launches pi with --no-extensions and then loads extensions in a specific order via explicit --extension flags. That ordering matters for some extensions. The package ships extensions but does not control load order; pi's own discovery order is used.

• Global settings merge — the launcher writes quietStartup, pins lastChangelogVersion, and applies other settings to pi's global config. Without that wiring, startup may be chattier.

• llama.cpp context re-probe — little-coder probes and reconfigures the llama.cpp provider's context window on each launch; that logic lives in bin/.

• Update flow — little-coder's update check and /update command are wired in bin/ and in the update-notice extension. Without the launcher wiring that extension degrades gracefully, but may not function as intended.

You may therefore observe different behaviour than in little-coder — for example, an aborted-run marker may appear, startup may produce more output, or extensions that rely on specific load ordering may behave differently. This is expected.

Upstream

Built from little-coder v1.20.0. See UPSTREAM.json for build provenance, shipped extensions, and skill categories. This package tracks the main little-coder version; when little-coder ships a new release, a corresponding package release is cut.

License

Apache-2.0 — see little-coder LICENSE.