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Comment by esperent

1 day ago

This is one of the advantages of pi. I made a /protect command that protects the message from compaction. I also protect skills automatically.

So for long running tasks I'll do

    /protect your goal is...

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sdesol  1 day ago

I am curious as to how this protect works. I am currently working on a pi brain extensions and one of the commands that I will support is:

/brains inspect

that will let you inspect a session and one of the features is the ability to review a compacted message like so:

https://gitsense.com/screenshots/inspect-pi-session-compacte...

https://gitsense.com/screenshots/inspect-pi-session-compacte...

https://gitsense.com/screenshots/inspect-pi-session-compacte...

With /compact in Pi, it creates a message that you can easily review and I am curious as to how '/protect' works.

One of the features that I am working on is to make it easy for agents to retrieve the exact message/event before compaction and I am curious if /protect is a deterministic process or if it is just instructions.

kaelwd  11 hours ago

https://github.com/k0valik/pi-blackhole works pretty well for this, instead of a summary of a summary of a summary it gets a rolling log of important instructions and discoveries, and can /recall exact contents of a previous message or tool call if needed.

  • esperent  8 hours ago

    That looks interesting, have you found it useful in practice? I'm a bit burnt out on these wildly ambitious big plugins (headspace, RTK etc.) because in each case when I've done personal evals they come out worse than the default.

    • kaelwd  4 hours ago

      I haven't done a proper benchmark or anything but it isn't noticeably worse at least, and the instant compaction with background processing is nice for slow models.

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throw10920  1 day ago

I'm also a fan of Pi - although, doesn't Claude code (and most other harnesses) already have "custom summarization instructions" for compaction/summarization that already allow you to do this? Or have you added on something extra?