jonaslsaa/pi-optchat
Persistent infinite memory with profiles, background agents, and conversation imports for Pi.
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A Pi extension that implements Victor Taelin's OptChat recipe: one endless chat per profile, remembered through a summary tree instead of compaction. It runs inside ordinary Pi, with no fork or separate launcher. Or from GitHub: pi install git:github.com/jonaslsaa/pi-optchat. Requirements: Pi 1.0.2 or compatible, Node.js 22.19+, and Git. Tested on macOS; the offline tests also run on Linux. Web access is not bundled. Subagents load the Pi extensions you have installed (except pi-optchat itself), so installing pi-web-access gives web tools to the main agent and every subagent. To uninstall, run pi remove git:github.com/jonaslsaa/pi-optchat. Profile data is kept. The footer shows the active profile. Memory follows the profile across directories and Pi sessions. New sessions show the profile picker with the last-used profile first; resumed sessions restore their profile. For headless use (pi -p, --mode rpc, other extensions' runners), pass --optchat-profile work. Without it, and without a saved profile in a…
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- pi-optchat
- Install
- Quick start
- Commands
- Models
- Settings
- Subagents
- Agents, usage and activity inspector
- Import history
- Connected windows
- Storage
- Good to know
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What this repository does
Persistent infinite memory with profiles, background agents, and conversation imports for Pi.
Repository facts
- Owner
- jonaslsaa
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 179
- Forks
- 12
- Open issues + pull requests
- 19
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-04T22:20:47.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-08T12:02:26.000Z
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Owner-supplied topics: memory, optchat, pi-extension
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