pi-mono/packages/coding-agent
Petr Houška 806cdd68e3
fix(coding-agent): only report packages as up to date when pi update checked them (#11711)
## Problem

#11707 prints `Packages are already up to date` whenever no package
changed. In two cases that claim is false.

**1. npm left the old version installed.** Extension updates install
`@latest` or the configured range. If npm resolves stale registry
metadata, it reinstalls the old version and exits 0. The existing check
warns, then the summary contradicts it:

```
Updating npm:foo...
npm:foo is still 1.2.0 (registry reports 1.3.0); npm registry metadata may be stale, try again in a few minutes
Packages are already up to date
```

**2. Offline mode.** With `--offline` or `PI_OFFLINE=1`,
`updateConfiguredSources()` returns before checking anything, and the
CLI still prints `Packages are already up to date`.

## Change

The CLI only prints "already up to date" when the update ran and printed
no warning:

| Situation | Output |
|---|---|
| Packages changed | `Updated N packages:` and the list (unchanged) |
| Nothing changed, no warnings | `Packages are already up to date`
(unchanged) |
| Nothing changed, a warning was printed | `No packages were updated,
see the warnings above` (or `<source> was not updated, ...`) |
| Offline mode | `Skipped package updates (offline mode)` |

The CLI counts `progress` update events, which are always warnings, and
does not try to map them to packages. That is deliberate: the git
warning about untracked files that could not be cleaned is printed even
though the commit did change, so a warning does not mean "this package
was not updated".

In offline mode, `update()` still runs, so `pi update <unknown source>`
still fails with "No matching package". `isOfflineModeEnabled()` is now
exported from `core/package-manager.ts` (not from the package index) so
the CLI uses the same check.

The changelog entry from #11707 is adjusted, since it is unreleased.

## Tests

`test/package-command-paths.test.ts`, both through `main()`:

- npm `view` reports 1.3.0 but `install` leaves 1.2.0: the
stale-metadata warning is printed, then `No packages were updated, see
the warnings above`, and no "up to date".
- `PI_OFFLINE=1`: `Skipped package updates (offline mode)`, no "up to
date".

Both fail without the fix. `cycles project package overrides in config
local mode`, `prints a pnpm metadata hint when self-update fails` and
`should expand ~ in exclusion and exact patterns` fail locally on
Windows, on `origin/main` as well.
2026-11-02 21:49:07 +01:00
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docs feat(ai): add Microsoft-Decision-1 classifier to GitHub Copilot (#11679) 2026-11-02 16:12:43 +01:00
examples Release v1.5.0 2026-11-02 11:38:21 +01:00
install-lock Release v1.5.0 2026-11-02 11:38:21 +01:00
schemas feat(ai,agent,coding-agent): validate tool arguments with pi-schema, drop TypeBox 2026-11-01 10:08:42 +00:00
scripts docs(ai,coding-agent): generate models.json reference from schemas (#11038) 2026-10-16 21:53:00 +01:00
src fix(coding-agent): only report packages as up to date when pi update checked them (#11711) 2026-11-02 21:49:07 +01:00
test fix(coding-agent): only report packages as up to date when pi update checked them (#11711) 2026-11-02 21:49:07 +01:00
.gitignore Fix tool call ID normalization for cross-provider switches to Anthropic/GitHub Copilot 2026-01-13 04:07:10 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md fix(coding-agent): only report packages as up to date when pi update checked them (#11711) 2026-11-02 21:49:07 +01:00
package.json Release v1.5.0 2026-11-02 11:38:21 +01:00
README.md feat(coding-agent): add Nix flake (#9137) 2026-10-02 18:30:51 +02:00
tsconfig.build.json feat(coding-agent): remove the experimental server stack and the client, protocol, and server packages 2026-10-12 10:41:59 +00:00
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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