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pi-downshift

Start premium. Finish cheap. Downshift cuts long Pi Coding Agent session costs by switching from your premium model to an economy model when context gets expensive.

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Install

$ pi install npm:pi-downshift

Installs from npm into ~/.pi/agent/. Add -l for project-local (.pi/). Manage with pi list / pi update / pi remove.

What this package can reach

Detected automatically from the source at version 0.6.2. This describes access, not safety — you decide whether it's appropriate for what the package claims to do.

  • 🤖
    Behavior — Changes how the agent thinks Modifies the system prompt, injects messages, or rewrites conversation context.
  • 📁
    Files — Reads files outside your project Touches paths beyond the working directory, such as your home folder.
  • ▤
    UI — Draws its own interface Renders widgets, footers, dialogs or full-screen views.

What it actually did when run

observed

Loaded in a sandbox with no network, a read-only filesystem and a recording stand-in for pi's API. This is what it called — not what the source suggests it might.

Events subscribed agent_endagent_settledbefore_agent_startcontextmodel_selectsession_compactsession_startsession_treethinking_level_selectturn_end

APIs called appendEntrygetContextUsagegetThinkingLevelisIdleregisterCommandsessionManager.getBranchsessionManager.getEntriessessionManager.getSessionIdui.notifyui.setStatus

Run against version 0.6.2 on 2026-08-02. Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.

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