tau-coding-agent
Opinionated Pi package with web search, review workflows, sandboxing, memory, usage reporting, skills, and a theme
Install
pi install npm:tau-coding-agent
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 0.1.6.
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.
- Extension bus — Talks to other extensions Uses pi.events to emit or listen on a shared channel, so it can coordinate with — or be driven by — other installed extensions.
- 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.
- Intercepts tools — Can block or rewrite tool calls Subscribes to tool_call/tool_result/input. Can change a command after you approved the one displayed.
- Keystrokes — Reads raw terminal input Hooks ui.onTerminalInput, so it sees what you type. Legitimate for shortcut handling; the same access a keylogger needs.
- Network — Talks to the internet Makes outbound network requests. Check the destinations are ones you expect.
- LLM traffic — Sees raw model API traffic Reads or replaces provider requests, headers or responses — including your prompts.
- Subagents — Spawns agents or sessions Runs additional agents. Ask whether it caps iterations and spend.
- 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 (3)
api.anthropic.com · api.z.ai · chatgpt.com
Static analysis only — addresses built at runtime won't appear here.
What it actually did when run
observedLoaded 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.
Replaces pi's built-in tool: bash.
Every use of that tool goes through this
package instead of pi.
Tools registered signal_loop_successbashwebsearch
Events subscribed agent_endagent_settledagent_startbefore_agent_startbefore_provider_requestinputmodel_selectreview:endreview:startsession_before_compactsession_compactsession_shutdownsession_starttool_execution_endtool_execution_starttool_resultturn_endui:prompt_endui:prompt_startuser_bash
APIs called events.onexecgetAllToolsgetAllTools.findmodelRegistry.getApiKeyForProvidermodelRegistry.getProviderAuthStatusregisterCommandregisterEntryRendererregisterFlagregisterShortcutregisterToolsendMessagesessionManager.getSessionFileui.getEditorComponentui.notifyui.setEditorComponentui.setStatusui.setToolsExpanded
2 calls the source scan did not predict
events.on · getAllTools.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 0.1.6 on 2026-08-02.
Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.
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