| ▲ | alfiedotwtf a day ago |
| Pi is awesome until compaction hits. I think one in every two compactions it’s failed on me ie didn’t know how to continue :( |
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| ▲ | pseudony a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Something is misconfigured on your end.
I have had some trouble where parameters were incorrect, but otherwise I have used several vendors (local, openrouter, ollama cloud, kimi, deep seek) and it generally works. Most likely context length parameters aren’t set quite right for your model/provider and you genuinely run out of context during compaction |
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| ▲ | esalman a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I never really rely on compaction. Instead, I instruct the coding agents to maintain a handoff markdown document across sessions. Ymmv. |
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| ▲ | alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent [-] | | What about if you’ve given a plan that will take hours? How do you tell how to auto-compact since it can’t read its own environment? | | |
| ▲ | pseudony a day ago | parent [-] | | Cannot show now because Github times out for me, again. I had pi write me a ralph loop plugin. You plan with it, it breaks it down into tasks. Task success means clearing the context - if it runs out of context, it clears and starts on the same task again (code changes from previous run are left intact). Complete with little docker-like names for Ralph sessions and the ability to resume sessions should you need to. Point is, I would generally do this because it costs less context I think, and better tracks progress. Ping me if you are interested and want it. Otherwise, plenty around :) | | |
| ▲ | esalman a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I do something similar to this, but manually. I just ask Opus to break the implementation into phases, after each phase is complete it'll update the handoff document, and I'll review the work before starting the next phase in a new session. I actually started using Opus 5.5 2-3 weeks ago and I'm still having to adapt my workflow around it. | |
| ▲ | machomaster a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Please share with me. | | | |
| ▲ | alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hehe yes please. I’m not sure how it will go mixing it with Superpowers, but your workflow sounds really useful. I like that it can recover from zero.. especially when I overclock ram and then hangs | | |
| ▲ | pseudony a day ago | parent [-] | | Hey, replying so it's easy for you to follow up on. https://github.com/jwdevantier/ralphish :) Remember, I didn't write a word of it - so if anything is not to your liking, it's no harder than pointing a model at it to fix it.
One of the many powers of Pi is the way plugin- and API documentation is bundled in. | | |
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| ▲ | julianlam a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Try pi-vcc or pi-blackhole |
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| ▲ | alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes.. pi-vcc does what no other compaction extension has managed to do - work! Thank you!! | |
| ▲ | alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thanks! I’ve taken a look at Blackhole before but it looks way to complicated for what I wanted. I’ll check out VCC. Thanks again! |
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