pi-mono/packages/coding-agent
Armin Ronacher 540e174c72
feat(coding-agent): Virtual models (#10035)
This adds experimental support for virtual models. A virtual model is a catalog entry that an extension registers with pi.registerVirtualModel(). It does not talk to a provider itself; for every request it picks a physical model and thinking level. The motivation is to make routing policies pluggable: plan on a strong model and implement on a cheap one, pick a model with a classifier, or move to a larger window when the context grows. Today this needs model switching by hand or hacks in prepareRequest.

The selection stays virtual: model_change records it, resume restores it, and each response records the physical model and thinking level that produced it. Router state can be stored on the session branch, so it follows /tree and forks and survives compaction. Context limits, compaction and image sizing use the physical model a request was routed to. examples/extensions/jev-router.ts shows a full router that uses the Jev classifier to pick Sol or Terra for planning and hands off to Luna after the first edit. docs/virtual-models.md describes the API.
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docs feat(coding-agent): Virtual models (#10035) 2026-09-28 23:30:45 +02:00
examples feat(coding-agent): Virtual models (#10035) 2026-09-28 23:30:45 +02:00
install-lock fix(ai): upgrade openai SDK to 7.19.0 (#10044) 2026-09-25 17:27:12 +02:00
scripts fix: use portable shebang in shell scripts 2026-01-22 21:44:39 +01:00
src feat(coding-agent): Virtual models (#10035) 2026-09-28 23:30:45 +02:00
test feat(coding-agent): Virtual models (#10035) 2026-09-28 23:30:45 +02:00
.gitignore Fix tool call ID normalization for cross-provider switches to Anthropic/GitHub Copilot 2026-01-13 04:07:10 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md feat(ai,coding-agent): add Claude Sonnet 5.5 support 2026-09-28 20:46:38 +02:00
npm-shrinkwrap.json fix(ai): upgrade openai SDK to 7.19.0 (#10044) 2026-09-25 17:27:12 +02:00
package.json feat: build with TypeScript 7 and run sources with plain node 2026-09-25 13:14:33 +02:00
README.md docs(coding-agent): refresh documentation (#9898) 2026-09-22 16:48:19 +02:00
tsconfig.build.json fix(coding-agent): keep remote harness dependencies development-only 2026-09-05 12:45:04 +02:00
tsconfig.examples.json chore: migrate pi packages to earendil works scope 2026-05-07 15:59:42 +02:00
vitest.config.ts fix: use bounded runtime paths for Unix sockets 2026-08-14 17:02:03 +03:00

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