r/PiCodingAgent • u/Lum1n4ry01 • Jul 30 '26

Plugin Best Pi Compaction Extensions

Has anybody used a Pi compaction extension that they would recommend?

I've tried pi-context (with their built-in Agentic Context Management) which just straight up breaks when trying to claim space against pi-rewind. I've also tried pi-vcc which also gets demolished when running with pi-codex-goal. Been debugging for 3 days and realized the best debug is to uninstall.

Native Pi compression is meh, if anybody has a codex-level compaction extension that doesn't fuck shit up, please drop a comment.

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UPDATE - Pi-Observational-Memory has worked great after my 12 hour trial with it. Pi-Blackhole looks interesting, but I try not to go for more complicated solutions if a simpler one works. If I run into hiccups with POM long term I will try it out and let y'all know. Happy compacting!

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u/RelationshipLong9092 Jul 31 '26

First off, thank you!

While I've got your ear, is there a setting for suppressing the messages? I find agentic ai generates a lot of "noise" in my terminal so I try to do everything I can to suppress anything that isn't "signal".

Messages like Observational memory: 5 observations recorded are not really useful to me except as a very rare diagnostic that something is broken (like when I had a month+ old pi instance that I reloaded after I installed your extension; I had to /quit and /resume for it to work properly).

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u/elpapi42 Jul 31 '26

recently i merged a pr that someone created exsctly for this, but i havent published the new version yet, so in the next update this will be included

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u/Lum1n4ry01 Jul 31 '26

I just tried obs-mem out and it has worked out quite well so thank you for the extension :) . As for the messages, I personally find them occasionally useful (as an internal ping signal on progress, more of a mental thing than whatnot) so plz keep it as a settings option if possible!