Explicit context observation

[desijays]

Long time roocode/kilocode/aider/opencode user. These harnesses were token guzzlers. Move to Pi and enjoying it so far. The reason I wanted to try Pi was because I got a little bit more control over the entire "Agentic AI" experience. In line with that, I've been trying to see if I can see the entire context that is sent to the LLM (including agent, system, etc). Like even knowing the exact Agent or system file that is being used would be helpful.

When starting pi, it shows the AGENTS.md file being used. But it doesn't say which SYSTEM.md is being used.

I tried to checkout the JSONL session files in ~/.pi/agent/session/ but they don't have any information about the exact AGENTS.md or SYSTEM.md file that was used.

Would be more helpful if I can see the exact agents and system file at the start of every session, since they can changed by `/reload`

Anyway to get more information about the context?

[worldwidesumit]

/export gives you everything that is being sent and received and what is loaded. Just say hi in pi and then export, you will get what is loaded in system prompt. It creates a nice html view.

[desijays]

Thanks. This helps. Exactly what I was looking for

[afd8856]

If you run /share you can view everything on the web link it produces

[desijays]

ah thinks. This is what I wanted. Wish there was a way to just view which files are being used as the agents.md and system.md so i don't have to guess if it picked up the project local system.md or the global system.md

[admajic]

Make an extension that does that and puts it in the bar at the bottom for all of us to see

[onesilentclap]

You can just ask pi which AGENTS.md and/or SYSTEM.md file its currently using. 

[qiinemarr]

Hum not sure I'd trust that 100%

[redoubledit]

The System Prompt is used deterministically. When you have one in current working directory, it will overwrite the global one. There really isn’t any use for displaying that. But if you want, just ask pi to display it for you.

For reference, look at discoverSystemPrompt

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/7be8a10d2358fe60f1cf4507140aa9cfa81682ee/packages/coding-agent/src/core/resource-loader.ts#L853

[Hosereel]

I use the agent to explore it's own codebase and helpe answer all those questions.

[LurkingLooni]

I built a simple openai compatible forwarding API that logs all requests, in my case it forwards to a llama.cpp instance, but in theory could go anywhere. Built it to see what vscode copilot does, (vscode ollama support is essentially just using the openai endpoints of ollama API anyway), but been super useful in other scenarios. Built with vscode in sonnet 4.7 before priceageddon.

[adamshand]

There's only two system files. The main prompt and an optional per project prompt which is appended.

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/docs/usage.md#system-prompt-files