Pi CC Tools

pi-claude-code-ui

A Claude Code style interface for pi. Tool calls fold into one-line summaries, every edit shows a syntax-highlighted diff, the spinner says what pi is doing, and the colors come from your terminal theme.

Terminal colors need pi 1.4 or newer. The package was called pi-claude-style-tools before 1.0.69.

Tool calls

Consecutive tool calls collapse into one sentence, such as Read 2 files, ran 1 shell command. While they run, the row reads Reading 2 files, running 1 shell command… · 3s and shows the call in progress below it. A failed call turns the dot red and adds · 1 failed.

Click a row (in pi's fullscreen mode) or press Ctrl+O to see every call and its output. Ctrl+Shift+O raises the preview limits for long outputs. A row stays where you clicked it, and the view scrolls only as far as needed to show what opened.

Built-in tools (read, bash, grep, find, ls, edit, write), MCP tools, OpenAI-style tools such as apply_patch, webfetch and web_search, and any custom tool all use the same row layout.

Diffs

edit and write show the change as a diff with syntax highlighting and word-level marks. Several edits to one file are listed one after the other. On wide terminals the diff can also use a side-by-side layout.

Shell commands that only change files are drawn the same way. sed -i, perl -pi, heredocs (cat > file  file show up as Edit (sed) pyproject.toml or Create (heredoc) CHANGELOG.md, with a diff of what actually changed on disk. The command runs unchanged and the model sees its normal output. Anything ambiguous, like a pipe or a variable, stays a regular bash row.

Spinner

While a tool runs, the working line names it: Running npm test…, Reading stats.py…, Searching for TODO…, Waiting for agent: Find edge cases…. While the model thinks, it shows a…