michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier

Pi Atelier

A responsive status rail and live activity sidebar for Pi.

Pi Atelier replaces Pi's default footer with a calm Status Rail and adds an optional docked sidebar for live agent, turn, tool, context, session, and project information.

Wide terminals use two stable zones: agent state and workspace identity stay left, while readable telemetry is right-aligned. The extension always uses its fixed dark Midnight Spectrum—blue input/context, purple output/menu, cyan cache, amber cost/working, and red danger—regardless of the selected Pi theme.

Demo

Watch the full-quality 74-second demo — the large video is hosted as a GitHub Release asset so it does not bloat Git clones or the npm package.

Interface details

<table <tr <th width="72%"Status Rail and Atelier menu access</th <th width="28%"Live Activity Sidebar</th </tr <tr <td valign="top"<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier/main/assets/status-rail.png" alt="Pi Atelier status rail and menu shortcut"</td <td valign="top"<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier/main/assets/preview.png" alt="Pi Atelier live activity sidebar"</td </tr </table

Fixed Dark Midnight Spectrum

Pi Atelier has one visual palette. Selecting a light, dark, or custom Pi theme does not change the footer's colors: labels, workspace text, metric values, state anchors, warnings, and errors all retain the same dark-style treatment. With NOCOLOR, the footer emits no custom RGB and uses theme-native neutral and semantic roles.

Features

• Preserves cumulative input, output, cache-read, cache-write, cache-hit, cost, subscription, context, and compaction information
• Responsive one-line layout that never wraps
• Model and thinking-level controls
• Searchable tool controls
• Editorial, minimal, and classic display presets
• Session details, renaming, and safe compaction controls

• Default-on, session-scoped, non-capturing docked information rail with live run, turn, tool, response-performance, and Workspace Pulse activity
• Completion notifications when a turn settles or Pi explicitly requests user input
• Fixed dark Midnight Spectrum across every selected theme, with a NOCOLOR fallback
• User and trusted-project configuration
• No telemetry or external network requests

Requirements

• Pi 0.80.7 or newer
• Node.js 22.19.0 or newer
• Interactive TUI mode

Install

pi install npm:pi-atelier

Try a checkout without installing it permanently: