Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

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@jonathan-nicoletti

Summary

The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

Background: why Pi is a bit different

Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

Proposed installer behavior

  1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

  2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

    {
    "mcpServers": {
    "proofkit-mcp": {
    "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
    "args": [],
    "env": {}
    }
    }
    }
  3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

    • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
    • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

    Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

Notes / open questions

  • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
  • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
  • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

Verification already done

Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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      Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

      Description

      @jonathan-nicoletti

      Summary

      The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

      PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

      Background: why Pi is a bit different

      Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

      Proposed installer behavior

      1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

      2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

        {
        "mcpServers": {
        "proofkit-mcp": {
        "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
        "args": [],
        "env": {}
        }
        }
        }
      3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

        • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
        • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

        Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

      Notes / open questions

      • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
      • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
      • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

      Verification already done

      Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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          Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

          Description

          @jonathan-nicoletti

          Summary

          The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

          PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

          Background: why Pi is a bit different

          Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

          Proposed installer behavior

          1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

          2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

            {
            "mcpServers": {
            "proofkit-mcp": {
            "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
            "args": [],
            "env": {}
            }
            }
            }
          3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

            • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
            • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

            Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

          Notes / open questions

          • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
          • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
          • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

          Verification already done

          Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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              Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

              Description

              @jonathan-nicoletti

              Summary

              The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

              PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

              Background: why Pi is a bit different

              Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

              Proposed installer behavior

              1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

              2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

                {
                "mcpServers": {
                "proofkit-mcp": {
                "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
                "args": [],
                "env": {}
                }
                }
                }
              3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

                • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
                • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

                Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

              Notes / open questions

              • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
              • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
              • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

              Verification already done

              Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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                  Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

                  Description

                  @jonathan-nicoletti

                  Summary

                  The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

                  PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

                  Background: why Pi is a bit different

                  Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

                  Proposed installer behavior

                  1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

                  2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

                    {
                    "mcpServers": {
                    "proofkit-mcp": {
                    "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
                    "args": [],
                    "env": {}
                    }
                    }
                    }
                  3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

                    • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
                    • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

                    Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

                  Notes / open questions

                  • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
                  • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
                  • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

                  Verification already done

                  Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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                      Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

                      Description

                      @jonathan-nicoletti

                      Summary

                      The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

                      PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

                      Background: why Pi is a bit different

                      Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

                      Proposed installer behavior

                      1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

                      2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

                        {
                        "mcpServers": {
                        "proofkit-mcp": {
                        "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
                        "args": [],
                        "env": {}
                        }
                        }
                        }
                      3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

                        • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
                        • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

                        Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

                      Notes / open questions

                      • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
                      • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
                      • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

                      Verification already done

                      Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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                          Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

                          Description

                          @jonathan-nicoletti

                          Summary

                          The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

                          PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

                          Background: why Pi is a bit different

                          Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

                          Proposed installer behavior

                          1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

                          2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

                            {
                            "mcpServers": {
                            "proofkit-mcp": {
                            "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
                            "args": [],
                            "env": {}
                            }
                            }
                            }
                          3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

                            • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
                            • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

                            Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

                          Notes / open questions

                          • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
                          • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
                          • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

                          Verification already done

                          Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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                              Installer: add native Pi (pi.dev) MCP registration #286

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                              @jonathan-nicoletti

                              Summary

                              The ProofKit installer auto-registers proofkit-mcp with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI. It does not support Pi, so Pi users currently have to configure ProofKit by hand.

                              PR #285 documents the manual Pi path. This issue tracks making it automatic, like the other agents.

                              Background: why Pi is a bit different

                              Unlike the currently-supported agents, Pi has no built-in MCP support. It cannot launch proofkit-mcp on its own — a community MCP-bridge extension must be installed first (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter). Once that adapter is present, Pi reads a standard mcpServers config, so the existing server entry shape works unchanged.

                              Proposed installer behavior

                              1. Detect Pi. Presence of the Pi agent dir ~/.pi/agent/ (or $PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR) is a reliable signal.

                              2. Write the server entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json under the standard mcpServers key — identical shape to the Claude Desktop/Cursor entries the installer already writes:

                                {
                                "mcpServers": {
                                "proofkit-mcp": {
                                "command": "/Users/you/.local/bin/proofkit-mcp",
                                "args": [],
                                "env": {}
                                }
                                }
                                }
                              3. Optionally note the adapter dependency. Since Pi needs an MCP bridge extension, the installer could either:

                                • just write the config and surface a one-line message ("Pi detected — run pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter, then restart Pi"), or
                                • leave adapter installation to the user and rely on the docs.

                                Writing only the standard config file (and not depending on any specific adapter) keeps users free to use any MCP bridge.

                              Notes / open questions

                              • ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json is the Pi-global override path read by pi-mcp-adapter; pi-mcp-extension is another option. Writing the vendor-neutral mcpServers file is the safest target.
                              • Adapter-specific niceties like lifecycle: "eager" and directTools: true are optional and probably shouldn't be written by the installer by default (they're adapter-specific, not part of the core entry).
                              • The agent-registration logic lives in the native installer (not this repo), so this is an installer-side change.

                              Verification already done

                              Manually wired this up locally: installed pi-mcp-adapter, added the proofkit-mcp entry to ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json, restarted Pi, and confirmed connectedFiles + layout_metadata worked and the 16 ProofKit tools registered as first-class Pi tools.

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