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pi-tui (bonsai)

Personal pi TUI extensions: an emoji art editor for the header and a detachable LM Studio provider switch.

extensions✓ Sep 10

## TL;DR

A personal collection of pi TUI extensions: emoji-editor adds an /emoji command that edits the header emoji art, and lmstudio is a detachable LM Studio provider you attach and remove with bin/lmstudio.sh.

## Key points

• $emoji-editor opens with /emoji inside pi: arrow keys move the cursor, Enter or Space places an emoji, 1-9 and 0 pick from the palette, c clears the canvas, ESC saves and exits, and q discards.
• $Emoji art persists to ~/.pi/agent/emoji-art.txt; install by symlinking extensions/emoji-editor.ts into ~/.pi/agent/extensions/ and running /reload.
• $lmstudio dynamically registers the models loaded by a local LM Studio server as a pi provider, kept separate from the main ~/.pi/agent configuration.
• $bin/lmstudio.sh on [model-id] attaches: it symlinks the extension into ~/.pi/agent/extensions/lmstudio and sets defaultProvider to lmstudio; off removes the symlink and restores the cloud provider (sakura by default); status reports the current state.
• $While detached, pi does not fetch LM Studio at startup, so no warning appears when the local server is not running.
• $PI_CLOUD_PROVIDER and PI_CLOUD_MODEL override the off-restore target, PI_AGENT overrides the pi configuration directory, and configuration read/write is delegated to the companion soubi repository.

## FAQ

## References

• README ↗

Last updated: Sep 10, 2026