interactive-shell SKILL.md skillA
interactive-shell from dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust/interactive-shell@git:20260206.e662fb3Pins git:20260206.e662fb3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust
- Path
tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/npm/pi-interactive-shell/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260206.e662fb3, committed Feb 6, 2026
- Size
- 17,416 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,966
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
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@sha256:d6217d08d4e28b5dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260206.e662fb3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Feb 6, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust · 1,966 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g62kxihsjzuaak5w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust/interactive-shell GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d6217d08d4e28b5d631af952427519668bf86d893d74d048419c848d2c84baec
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