Your CLI coding agent, now with a visual memory and a mouse

What it does

pi-web is a local dashboard for the pi coding agent. It reads the agent’s .jsonl session files from ~/.pi/agent/sessions and renders them into a browser workspace for browsing conversation history by project, chatting via Server-Sent Events, and previewing source files, images, PDFs, audio, and DOCX without leaving the tab. It turns the agent’s raw log files into a navigable project companion.

The interesting bit

Instead of replacing the CLI, it mirrors and extends it. The UI can switch Git worktrees from the sidebar, fork a conversation into a new .jsonl file, or branch mid-session inside the same log—treating conversation history like version control for your prompts. It also surfaces terminal state the CLI never had room for, like context usage, cost, and compaction status, in a persistent top bar.

Key highlights

• Browse and resume past pi sessions by project without digging through terminal history or encoded file paths.
• Fork conversations into new .jsonl files or branch mid-session to try different directions safely.
• Switch Git worktrees from the sidebar so new sessions follow the checkout you choose.
• Preview source, diffs, images, audio, PDFs, and DOCX files in a split-pane layout while chatting.
• Configure models, API keys, skills, and thinking levels from the web UI instead of editing config files by hand.

Verdict

Developers already running the pi coding agent and tired of scrolling through terminal output should try this; anyone not using pi-mono locally will find it has nothing to talk to.