interactive-shell skillA
interactive-shell is agent-read markdown (skill) from dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust: Cheat sheet + workflow for launching interactive coding-agent CLIs (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor CLI, and pi itself) via the interactive_shell overlay or headless dispatch. Use for TUI agents and long-running processes that need supervision, fire-and-forget delegation, or headless background execution. Regular bash commands should use the bash tool instead..
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What the file says
# Interactive Shell (Skill) Last verified: 2026-01-18 ## Foreground vs Background Subagents Pi has two ways to delegate work to other AI coding agents: | | Foreground Subagents | Dispatch Subagents | Background Subagents | |---|---|---|---| | **Tool** | `interactive_shell` | `interactive_shell` (dispatch) | `subagent` | | **Visibility** | User sees overlay | User sees overlay (or headless) | Hidden from user | | **Agent model** | Polls for status | Notified on completion | Full output captured | | **Default agent** | `pi` (others if user requests) | `pi` (others if user requests) | Pi only | | **User control** | Can take over anytime | Can take over anytime | No intervention | | **Best for** | Long tasks needing supervision | Fire-and-forget delegations | Parallel tasks, structured delegation | **Foreground subagents** run in an overlay where the user watches (and can intervene). Use `interactive_shell` with `mode: "hands-free"` to monitor while receiving periodic updates, or `mode: "dispatch"` to be notified on completion without polling. …
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How to install
mdr add dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust/interactive-shell@git:20260206.e662fb3mdr add dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust/interactive-shell@sha256:d6217d08d4e28b5dPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Source
dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust · 1,776 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
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