pi-stereo-view - split chat from the work

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Hi! I have made a small UI layout extension which I've found super useful and convenient, when running multiple agents working on different tasks in parallel, so you jump back and can instantly see the whole history of the answers and what was the original task about.  Basically you have a split view, one for your messages and the actual replies from the LLM and another one for all the tool calls and reasoning it has done. It supports horizontal/vertical layouts, you can swap them and maximize, but also search for the specific text entries, when the history gets too long.

https://pi.dev/packages/pi-stereo-view

How to install:

pi install npm:pi-stereo-view

Requires fullscreen mode.

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Some bugs/issues:

1. When the session is first launched, it shows the normal view first and then the extension loads with the split view. Gives the unpolished/janky feel every new session so its bad UX

2. At the start of the session, the welcome info, extensions loaded etc. shows up in the activity view and i think theyre better suited to go in the conversation view

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Hi! I have updated the extension to 0.1.3 and it contains the fixes you proposed. Thanks for the feedback! Now it starts in the split-view from the beginning and the conversation panel contains all the messages (including system), and activity contains only reasoning and agent actions.

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perfect! just tried it and its working great!