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pi-web-access

Web search, URL fetching, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction and YouTube video understanding for pi.

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Install

$ pi install npm:pi-web-access

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 0.17.1. 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.
  • Commands — Runs shell commands Spawns processes on your machine.
  • 🔑
    Credentials — Handles your API keys Reads or passes provider credentials. Highest-trust capability there is.
  • 📁
    Files — Reads files outside your project Touches paths beyond the working directory, such as your home folder.
  • 🌐
    Network — Talks to the internet Makes outbound network requests. Check the destinations are ones you expect.
  • 🔧
    New tools — Adds model-callable tools Gives the agent new abilities. Additive and visible, unlike an override.
  • UI — Draws its own interface Renders widgets, footers, dialogs or full-screen views.
Network destinations found in the source (9)

api.anysearch.com · api.exa.ai · api.perplexity.ai · api.serpdive.com · api.tavily.com · content-push.googleapis.com · gemini.google.com · img.youtube.com · torchlight.byteintlapi.com

Static analysis only — addresses built at runtime won't appear here.

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.

Tools registered web_searchsource_checkfetch_contentget_search_content

Events subscribed session_shutdownsession_startsession_tree

APIs called execisProjectTrustedmodelRegistry.getAllmodelRegistry.getAll.filtermodelRegistry.getAll.filter.filtermodelRegistry.getAll.filter.filter.sortmodelRegistry.getAll.filter.filter.sort.findmodelRegistry.getApiKeyAndHeadersregisterCommandregisterShortcutregisterToolsendMessagesessionManager.getBranchui.notify

4 calls the source scan did not predict

modelRegistry.getAll.filter · modelRegistry.getAll.filter.filter · modelRegistry.getAll.filter.filter.sort · modelRegistry.getAll.filter.filter.sort.find

Reached through a value the scan could not follow — passed as an argument, stored on another object, or returned by a helper.

Run against version 0.17.1 on 2026-08-01. Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.

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