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Stacked on #40. The agent-facing payload: five skills ported from grok/, plus the package README.

Most of this diff is a verbatim port — the five SKILL.md files and their references/ subdirs, which pi supports natively. Review attention belongs on the adaptations below, not the bulk.

Prefixed names (tinyfish-web, not search) are kept deliberately: pi skills land in the shared ~/.agents/skills namespace alongside every other package's, and they also coexist with the CLI-installed use-tinyfish. Pi warns and keeps-first on name collisions, so distinct names matter more here than in a namespaced plugin.

What changed from grok/

Change Why
New "Finding the tools" section in the router The same tool has three names depending on install path. The suffix is the tool; the prefix only names the install.
New CLI-fallback section with a mapping table Pi ships no MCP client, so most pi users have no TinyFish tools at all. The CLI grammar is two-level (tinyfish search query "<q>") and does not mirror the MCP tool names — without the table a model invents tinyfish run_web_automation.
Rewrote both Auth sections grok's said the server is "configured by this plugin, authenticated by OAuth on first connection" — the exact opposite of the truth on this route.
rules/security.md → ../../rules/security.md Pi resolves skill references relative to the skill directory, so the bare path dangled.
"plugin" → "package" throughout It is an npm package; pi users would not recognise the plugin framing.

The auth failure is silent, and the copy reflects that

Worth knowing for review: with TINYFISH_API_KEY unset the server never finishes connecting, so no metadata cache is built and no tools register at all. There is no 401, no error text, and nothing in the startup output. Live-tested — the model sees Tool "tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish_search" not found and mcp({ search: "tinyfish" }) answers No tools matching "tinyfish".

That is indistinguishable at a glance from having no adapter installed, so the router carries a two-branch diagnostic:

Symptom Cause
no mcp tool at all no adapter installed
mcp present but mcp({ search: "tinyfish" }) empty key unset or invalid

Telemetry: the two routes are already distinguishable

No code needed. pi-mcp-adapter identifies itself to the server as `pi-mcp-${serverName}` (server-manager.ts:1045), and the MCP route already records clientInfo.name as client_name on mcp_session_initialized (http-handler.ts:311).

  • package route → pi-mcp-tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish
  • CLI route → pi-mcp-tinyfish

So install-route attribution falls out of the derived server name for free. Source-derived, not yet confirmed on the wire. A follow-up could map pi-mcp-* the way PARKING_CLIENTS already maps grok-shell-tinyfish, rather than leaving raw strings in client_name.

Verified in a live pi session

Isolated PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, pi 0.84.4 + adapter 2.32.1:

  • All five skills load; no collision warning against the existing use-tinyfish.
  • All eight MCP tools register top-level; a real tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish_search call returns results through the package's own registration.
  • Adapter removed: the model reaches tinyfish search query "pi coding agent" unaided — the correct two-level grammar it could not have guessed without the table.
  • Binary removed too: it recovers on its own — tries tinyfish search --help, falls back to npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest search --help, then runs the real query.

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The pull request adds the Pi integration for TinyFish. It defines MCP configuration, package installation and authentication guidance, five skills, research references, browser and automation guidance, security rules, and privacy behavior. The documentation covers tool selection, run management, structured outputs, authenticated sessions, anti-bot handling, source validation, synthesis, and troubleshooting. Package metadata also encodes the description’s em dash as a Unicode escape.

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inline threads for nine asks summarized in the preceding review:

  1. subagents. stock Pi lacks required tool; can research fall back locally?
  2. session IDs. live schemas require one; can examples and parameters include it?
  3. run lifecycle. can async require explicit background intent and sync timeouts recover without retry?
  4. browser cleanup. neither fallback exposes full cleanup; can registration and CLI guidance align?
  5. CLI auth flags. can profile and vault options map to agent run?
  6. proxy naming. can calls use name returned by adapter search?
  7. auth diagnostics. can copy match current adapter and CLI behavior?
  8. browser URL. can docs state that creation pre-navigates?
  9. research artifacts. can repository writes require user request?

Comment thread pi/skills/tinyfish-research/SKILL.md Outdated
| Level | Looks like | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Trivial | One fact, one entity, or "read this page for me" | Handle it yourself. One or two `search` calls, or a direct `fetch_content`. Answer. No subagents. |
| Moderate | A focused question with one clear angle | One subagent, to keep raw results out of your context. |

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this makes every moderate-or-larger research task impossible on stock Pi: 0.85.1 has no subagent tool, while line 115 forbids doing work locally. can we add a capability fallback or ship the required extension?

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Confirmed and fixed. Verified stock pi has no subagent tool — a live session lists read, bash, edit, write, mcpScript, mcp and the MCP tools, nothing else. Combined with the "never run bulk searching in your own context" rule at what was line 115, Moderate-and-up research was indeed impossible.

Added a "First: can you actually fan out?" section at the top of the skill that gates on the capability and maps each fan-out step to a sequential equivalent (one angle at a time, 3–5 searches each, compress before moving on). It explicitly says not to refuse the work and not to pretend to have fanned out, and scopes the bulk-search rule to "never hold bulk raw results" where subagents are absent.

Went with a capability fallback rather than shipping an extension: an extension would mean maintaining a pi-specific subagent implementation for one harness, and the sequential path costs context, not correctness.

accepts and `run_web_automation` forwards to it; if one isn't in the schema you can see, it isn't
available through MCP. `url` and `goal` always are. Never invent a parameter name.

| Parameter | Notes |

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the live sync and async schemas require a fresh UUID session_id, but this parameter table and authenticated example omit it, so copied calls fail validation. can we add it and require a fresh UUIDv4 per call?

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Confirmed against the live schema and fixed. run_web_automation is "required": ["url", "goal", "session_id"], and the field says a fresh UUID v4 per call, never reuse.

  • Added session_id to the parameter table with the required + fresh-per-call rule stated explicitly.
  • Added it to all three example call bodies — both authenticated examples and the anti-bot stealth example in references/.

Placeholders read "<a fresh UUID v4 you generate for this call>" rather than a literal UUID, precisely so a copied example cannot become a reused value.

Comment thread pi/skills/tinyfish-automation/SKILL.md Outdated
| Tool | When |
|---|---|
| `run_web_automation` | Default. Streams progress; you get the result in the same turn |
| `run_web_automation_async` | Long tasks where you don't need to watch. Returns `run_id`; poll `get_run` |

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this chooses async for long tasks, but live contract permits it only after explicit background request; retrying a timed-out sync call can duplicate paid actions. can we gate async and teach no-retry recovery through list_runs?

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Confirmed and fixed — the live tool description is stronger than the ask: "Do not call this tool again or call run_web_automation_async as a retry; use get_run or list_runs to check status."

  • run_web_automation_async is now gated on the user explicitly asking for background execution, and the table says so. Added "A long task is not a reason to go async."
  • New "When a run errors or times out, do not retry" section: steps cost credits and take real actions, a timed-out call may still be executing, and re-running can duplicate paid work. Recovery is list_runs → get_run → only act once terminal.
  • Also folded in the insufficient-credits path: relay the upgrade link, never silently downgrade to a weaker tool.

list_runs was not registered, so this fix needed it added to directTools — caught by the package validator, see the reply on the browser thread.

| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `create_browser_session` | Start a remote stealth Chrome session; returns a `session_id` and `cdp_url`. Optionally takes a target URL for proxy selection |
| `list_browser_sessions` | List sessions, filterable by `session_id` or status (`running`/`ended`) — use it to find sessions still open |

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this cleanup path is unavailable on both documented fallbacks: bundled direct tools omit list_browser_sessions, and CLI 0.43 exposes create only. can we register list directly and avoid CLI browser fallback until list/close exist?

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Both halves confirmed, and this was the sharpest catch — thank you.

CLI: tinyfish browser session in 0.43 exposes create and nothing else. So a CLI-opened session cannot be closed and bills until its inactivity timeout. Removed the browser row from the CLI fallback table entirely and replaced it with an explicit prohibition; the browser skill now says the capability requires the MCP tools and offers run_web_automation as the alternative when they are absent.

Registration: list_browser_sessions is now in directTools. Verified live — all three browser tools register top-level.

This also exposed a hole in our own validator: its known-tools list omitted list_browser_sessions, so the "taught but not registered" check silently under-covered. Completed the list and added a guard that fails if directTools ever contains a name the list does not know, so it cannot fall behind mcp.json again. That guard immediately caught list_runs missing from the async fix above.

Comment thread pi/skills/tinyfish-web/SKILL.md Outdated
| `run_web_automation` | `tinyfish agent run "<goal>" --url <url>` |
| `run_web_automation_async`, `get_run` | `tinyfish agent run ...`, then the run subcommands |
| `create_browser_session` | `tinyfish browser ...` |
| `use_profile`, `use_vault` | `tinyfish profile ...`, `tinyfish vault ...` |

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these are run flags, not setup groups: CLI 0.43 accepts --use-profile, --profile-id, --use-vault, and --credential-item-id under tinyfish agent run. can we map them there so authenticated fallback actually runs?

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Confirmed and fixed. tinyfish profile and tinyfish vault are management groups, not run modifiers — the mapping as written could not have produced an authenticated run.

Replaced with the actual flags on agent run, verified against 0.43 --help:

Skill CLI
use_profile: true --use-profile
profile_id --use-profile --profile-id <id>
use_vault: true --use-vault
credential_item_ids --use-vault --credential-item-id <id> (repeat per item)

Added a line noting these are flags on agent run, and pointing at tinyfish vault item list for the IDs.

Comment thread pi/skills/tinyfish-web/SKILL.md Outdated

If a tool named `mcp` exists but no TinyFish tools do, they may be behind the adapter's proxy:
`mcp({ search: "tinyfish" })` lists them, and you call one with
`mcp({ tool: "tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish_search", args: { ... } })`.

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this proxy call works only for package registration. CLI registration names the tool tinyfish_search, so hardcoded tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish_search fails there. can we call the exact name returned by mcp({ search: "tinyfish" })?

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Confirmed and fixed. The hardcoded name was correct only for package installs and wrong under CLI registration, where the same tool is tinyfish_search.

The proxy guidance now says to call the exact name mcp({ search: "tinyfish" }) returned, with <exact name from that result> as the placeholder, and states that the prefix differs per install so no name from the doc should be used directly.

Added a validator check for the regression: a literal derived tool name inside mcp({ tool: ... }) fails the build, while an angle-bracket placeholder passes.

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Keys come from [agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys](https://agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys).

There is **no OAuth fallback on this path**, and the failure is quiet: the MCP adapter disables OAuth

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this auth path no longer behaves as described: adapter 2.33 prints Unauthorized when key is missing, while connect pi --api-key writes a literal key and never opens browser auth. can we update both branches to match current clients?

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Confirmed on both branches — I re-tested rather than relying on my earlier notes, and the behaviour had changed under me.

Adapter: on 2.33.0 with the key unset, the connection now fails with Unauthorized: Valid OAuth Bearer token required. On 2.32.1, which I originally measured, it failed silently. The README said "you do not get a 401, the tools simply do not appear" — accurate then, wrong now. Updated to lead with the Unauthorized message, note it names OAuth but means the API key, and keep the silent case as the older-adapter footnote.

CLI: you are right, and the old text was self-contradictory — it offered connect pi --api-key as the way to "sign in through the browser". Passing a key writes a literal key and never opens a browser. Rewritten to state plainly that neither pi route offers browser sign-in, with a table showing the only real difference: env-var interpolation for the package vs a literal key written into mcp.json for the CLI. Also flagged that the CLI stores it in plain text and does not replace the package entry.

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## Usage

`create_browser_session` optionally takes a target URL, which lets TinyFish pick the best proxy for

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the current schema says url navigates after session creation, not merely that it helps proxy selection, so following this with page.goto reloads the page. can we document pre-navigation and omit one navigation?

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Confirmed against the live schema and fixed — url is documented as "Navigate to this URL after session creation", so the old "for proxy selection" framing was wrong and the example did navigate twice.

The tool table now says it navigates during creation, and the usage section states the page is already loaded by the time cdp_url comes back. Replaced the single example with two: one passing url and using page.title() with no goto, one omitting url and navigating in-script. Kept the proxy-selection benefit as a reason to pass it, alongside saving the navigation.

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- **Notes** — anything genuinely useful you found that the user didn't ask for.

Rules: no emojis unless asked. Inline hyperlinks wherever a link adds value. Tables over lists unless
fields are non-uniform or values are too long to fit. If the full result can't fit one screen, write

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can we make artifact output opt-in? a long read-only research request currently writes ./tinyfish-results automatically, leaving user repositories modified even when they only asked for an answer.

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Agreed and fixed. Writing into a repository the user did not ask you to touch is the wrong default for a read-only request.

./tinyfish-results/... is now opt-in: the skill says never to write files unless the user asked for one, and that if the result does not fit on a screen the agent should say so and offer, naming the path it would use, then wait. If the user delegates the choice the old path is still the default, and if they name one that wins.

Called out the repo case specifically, since that is the one where an unrequested write does real damage.

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All nine addressed — each verified against current versions before changing anything, and every one turned out to be real. Replies are on the individual threads; summary here.

Three of these could only be confirmed by re-testing, because all three upstream packages moved since I wrote this: pi 0.84.4 → 0.85.1, pi-mcp-adapter 2.32.1 → 2.33.0, CLI 0.42.0 → 0.43.0. The auth finding in particular had inverted under me — the silent failure I documented became a visible Unauthorized in 2.33.

# Verified how Fix
1 subagents live pi tool list — no subagent tool exists capability-gated sequential fallback
2 session_id live schema: required: [url, goal, session_id] added to param table + all 3 examples
3 async/retry live tool description forbids async-as-retry gated on explicit intent; list_runs→get_run recovery
4 browser cleanup CLI 0.43 browser session has create only registered list_browser_sessions; banned the CLI browser path
5 CLI auth flags agent run --help mapped to the real flags
6 proxy naming — use the name mcp({ search }) returns
7 auth diagnostics re-tested on adapter 2.33 both branches rewritten
8 browser URL live schema: "Navigate to this URL after session creation" documented pre-navigation, split the example
9 artifacts — opt-in, offer-then-wait

mcp.json is in this PR now. #40 merged while this was in review, so the directTools additions that #4 and #3 require (list_browser_sessions, list_runs — now 12 tools) land here instead. I also rebased onto main to drop the already-merged scaffold commit; this PR was briefly showing pi/package.json, pi/LICENSE and the root README as part of its diff, and no longer does.

Two of your comments found holes in our own validator, which is the part I'd most want a second look at:

  • Its known-tools list omitted list_browser_sessions, so the "taught but not registered" check was silently under-covering. Completed the list and added a guard that fails if directTools ever contains a name the list doesn't know — it can't fall behind mcp.json again. That guard then immediately caught list_runs missing, which my own fix for docs: update Dify privacy policy #3 had introduced.
  • Added a check that fails on a literal derived tool name inside mcp({ tool: ... }) while allowing a placeholder, so fix: resolve n8n community node pre-check failures #6 can't regress.

Verified live after the changes: all 12 tools register top-level in a real pi session, and node pi/test/validate.mjs is green.

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- Around line 97-98: Update the direct-tool count in the README text to 12,
keeping the existing description of the registered tools and remaining TinyFish
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- Around line 49-50: Update the package-content statement in the README to
reflect that the package manifest includes the rules directory and publishes
rules/security.md; remove the incorrect claim that the directory is not declared
or that only inline rules are installed.
- Line 72: Replace the mutable `@tinyfish/cli`@latest reference with one exact CLI
version at all four npx command sites supporting connect pi, and apply the same
exact version to the global install command in the tinyfish-web skill
instructions. Keep the existing commands and credential flow unchanged apart
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credentials in the goal.** Instead:

1. Say plainly that the site needs a signed-in session and no saved profile is available.
2. Point the user at **Browser Context Profiles** in the TinyFish dashboard: create a profile, name it

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include link to dashboard?

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Added — three links, at all the unlinked "dashboard" mentions in this skill.

Verified the URLs rather than guessing, which mattered: the Vault docs are at /key-concepts/credentials, not /key-concepts/vault (that 404s), and the dashboard nav path is Settings → Vault.

  • Profile creation (this line and the one above): dashboard https://agent.tinyfish.ai, plus the walkthrough at https://docs.tinyfish.ai/key-concepts/browser-context-profiles
  • Vault: Settings → Vault in the dashboard to connect 1Password or Bitwarden, plus https://docs.tinyfish.ai/key-concepts/credentials

Linked the docs pages alongside the dashboard root rather than deep-linking dashboard routes, since those are auth-gated and would bounce a logged-out user to a login screen with no context.

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pi/README.md:50 — rules/ is published. Fixed. rules is in files, so rules/security.md does ship; the sentence conflated "shipped" with "declared in the pi manifest". Reworded: it ships and documents the rules in full, but the manifest declares only ./skills, so pi never loads it as a component and the enforceable copy is the one inline in each skill.

pi/README.md:98 — direct-tool count. Fixed, twelve not eleven. It drifted when list_runs and list_browser_sessions were added during this review round. Since it has now drifted twice, added a validator check that parses the "registers N tools directly" claim out of the README and compares it to directTools.length — negative-tested by reverting to eleven, which now fails the build.

anti-bot.md:23 — unconditional re-run. Fixed, and a real conflict. The parent skill now forbids re-running a failed or timed-out run, while this file told the agent to re-run to collect captures — exactly the duplicate-submission path. Rewritten: enable capture_config.screenshots/snapshots on the next run you were going to make anyway, never re-run purely to collect them; inspect with get_run/list_runs first and only start a new run once the original is terminal and did not do the work.

pi/README.md:72 — pin the CLI version. Not taking this one.

@tiny-fish/cli is first-party — ours, published from tinyfish-io/ux-labs via npm Trusted Publisher (OIDC). Pinning it in shipped docs trades a supply-chain risk we control for a staleness problem we can't fix after publish: a version number baked into a published npm tarball and into model-facing skill copy keeps sending users to an old CLI long after it stops being the right one, including past security fixes. A pinned release is equally capable of being compromised; the version number isn't the mitigation.

It also matches existing precedent here — grok/README.md already ships npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest connect grok --api-key, so pinning only pi would leave the two inconsistent without making either safer.

Worth revisiting as a repo-wide policy on pinning first-party CLI invocations in docs, which is the right level for that decision rather than one integration.

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Inverted the research skill, and added pi-subagents as the documented upgrade

tinyfish-research is now sequential-first. The old version was written subagent-first with a translation layer bolted on top, which is backwards for this package — essentially every pi reader lacks subagents. ## Step 2: Dispatch subagents (46 lines of prompt-template guidance, dead weight here) is replaced by ## Step 2: Work the passes, with fan-out demoted to a subsection. Subagent mentions dropped 28 → 15; the sizing table and compile step are now written in passes, not children.

Recommending pi-subagents (pi.dev, 428.8K downloads/mo, MIT) — but with a caveat that I tested rather than assumed, because it changes the advice materially:

A child does not inherit our TinyFish tools. I installed pi-subagents alongside this package and delegated a task asking the child to list its own tools. It returned read, grep, find, ls, bash, edit, write, contact_supervisor — no TinyFish tools, no mcp proxy. A child told to search would simply fail.

pi-subagents documents why (docs/agents.md:431): "Subagents only receive direct MCP tools when mcp: entries are listed in their frontmatter; global directTools: true in mcp.json is not enough by itself."

So the skill ships a custom-agent snippet with mcp: tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish and says plainly: until such an agent exists, stay sequential — it is the working path, not a degraded one. It also forbids the tempting workaround of having children shell out to the tinyfish CLI, which is unauthenticated per-child and wastes the context delegation was meant to save.

Provenance marked honestly in the copy: the child-inherits-nothing half is verified here; the mcp: snippet follows their documented contract and I have not run it end to end — my verification attempt timed out at 9 minutes on subagent spawn.

CodeRabbit on the inverted skill — both taken

:49 no-refusal (Major). Right, and my wording was genuinely unsafe. "Do not refuse the work" in model-facing copy could suppress legitimate safety, authorization, or scope refusals. Narrowed to "Do not refuse solely because no subagent tool is available — every normal reason to decline or check in still applies, unchanged." Grepped the other four skills for the same phrasing; no other instances.

:159 sources_reviewed double-counting. Also right, and it contradicted our own dedupe step. Summing per-pass counts double-counts any URL seen in more than one pass, and overlap between passes is expected. Now a single running set for the whole task, with an explicit "never sum per-pass numbers". Followed it through to the agent snippet, which now asks children to return the URL list rather than a count, so the parent can union them — otherwise the fix would not have held for the delegated path.

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Correction + fix: the package can ship the subagent agent itself

My previous comment said fan-out needs the user to hand-write an agent with mcp: frontmatter. That was wrong on both halves, and I've replaced it.

1. A package can expose agents. pi-subagents discovers them from the package manifest — docs/agents.md:22 lists "Installed package | package.json pi-subagents.agents or pi.subagents.agents", confirmed in their source at src/agents/agents.ts:525-543. So this package now ships agents/tinyfish-researcher.md and declares pi.subagents.agents: ["./agents"].

That makes fan-out one command and matches the arrangement we already use for MCP:

Capability Declared by us Dormant until
MCP server pi.mcp pi install npm:pi-mcp-adapter
Research subagent pi.subagents.agents pi install npm:pi-subagents

2. The frontmatter syntax I published was wrong. MCP servers are named inside tools: as mcp:<server> entries (tools: read, write, mcp:tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish), not as a separate top-level mcp: key. This is exactly why I'd flagged that snippet as untested; it was.

Verified live, end to end

  • subagent({ action: "list" }) returns tinyfish-researcher first — package discovery works.
  • A child launched with it reports tinyfish_search, tinyfish_fetch_content, tinyfish_run_web_automation, … — the child does get TinyFish tools. The earlier "children inherit nothing" result stands for a stock child; naming the server fixes it.

One finding worth propagating: the child sees a different prefix than the parent — tinyfish_* in the child vs tiny-fish_pi__tinyfish_* in the parent. My first draft of the agent body hardcoded the parent's prefix. It now tells the child to read its own tool list and match on the suffix, never a prefix copied from a doc. Same lesson as the router.

Also noted: mcp:<server> grants the child the server's whole surface (17 tools), not our 12-tool directTools selection.

Guardrails added (in #43)

The agent's server name is derived data, so it can silently drift from mcp.json. The validator now recomputes formatPackageName(name) + "__" + formatServerName(serverKey) and fails if the agent names anything else. Five checks, each negative-tested:

Break it Caught
agent names mcp:tinyfish (the CLI-route name) ✅ names the derived name instead
agent has no mcp: entry ✅ child would get no TinyFish tools
agent sets output: ✅ children must not write files — would violate the read-only default
agents missing from files ✅ would not ship
pi.subagents.agents undeclared ✅ pi-subagents could not discover it

The CI tarball assertion now requires agents/tinyfish-researcher.md too.

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Ports the five skills from `grok/` — router plus research, automation,
authenticated and browser — with their `references/` subdirs, which pi supports
natively. Prefixed names are kept deliberately: pi skills land in the shared
`~/.agents/skills` namespace alongside every other package's, where `search`
would be ambiguous and would also collide with the CLI-installed `use-tinyfish`.

Most of the diff is a verbatim port. The adaptations are:

| Change | Why |
|---|---|
| New "Finding the tools" section in the router | Same tool has three names depending on install path. The suffix is the tool, the prefix names the install. |
| New CLI-fallback section with a mapping table | Pi ships no MCP client, so most users have no TinyFish tools at all. The CLI grammar is two-level (`tinyfish search query "<q>"`) and does not mirror the tool names, so without the table a model invents `tinyfish run_web_automation`. |
| Rewrote both Auth sections | grok's said the server is "configured by this plugin, authenticated by OAuth on first connection" — the exact opposite of the truth on this route, which is key-only with no OAuth. |
| `rules/security.md` -> `../../rules/security.md` | Pi resolves skill references relative to the skill directory, so the bare path dangled. |
| "plugin" -> "package" throughout | This is an npm package, not a plugin; pi users would not recognise the term. |

The auth failure mode is quieter than expected and the copy reflects it. With
`TINYFISH_API_KEY` unset the server never finishes connecting, so no metadata
cache is built and *no tools register at all* — no 401, no error text, nothing at
startup. That is indistinguishable at a glance from having no adapter installed,
so the router carries a two-branch diagnostic: no `mcp` tool at all means no
adapter; `mcp` present but `mcp({ search: "tinyfish" })` empty means the key.

Verified in an isolated `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR` against a live pi session: all five
skills load, all eight MCP tools register top-level, a real search call returns
through the package's own registration, and with the adapter removed the model
reaches `tinyfish search query "..."` unaided — then recovers to
`npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest` when the binary is absent too.

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Dropped the shipped subagent — scope correction

pi/agents/ and its pi.subagents.agents manifest entry are removed from this PR.

Root cause, stated properly: this PR's research problem was that tinyfish-research was ported from grok/ unchanged and assumed subagents, which pi doesn't have. That's a porting defect, and the sequential-first rewrite fixes it completely. Shipping an agent was solving a different problem — "how do we make fan-out work on pi" — that nobody had asked for, and it dragged in a third-party package's config schema, tool-policy decisions that aren't ours, and a hardcoded copy of pi's builtin tool list.

It also failed testing. agents.md:414 documents async: true as required for MCP agents; setting it made the launch fail outright, and the background variant failed too. The only config I got working is the one the docs say shouldn't work. That contract isn't stable enough to ship, and CI can't protect it — the install job resolves config, it never launches a child.

The skill keeps a short factual note in its place: pi ships no subagent tool, pi-subagents adds one, and a child reaches TinyFish only if pi-mcp-adapter is installed and the server is named in that agent's own tools: frontmatter. Users own their agent definitions.

Validator and CI dropped their agent checks with it; pi/ is back to 17 files.

Also rebased the stack onto current main to pick up #44/#45.

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Track `sources_reviewed` in **one running set for the whole task**, not per pass. Add every source
URL you see in `search` results or fetch, and let the set dedupe them — the same URL surfacing in
three passes is one source, not three. Never sum per-pass counts: that double-counts overlap, and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Count only URLs that the agent actually reviews.

sources_reviewed currently includes every URL returned by search, even when the agent does not fetch or inspect that page. The final response then reports those URLs as reviewed sources. Add URLs only after inspection, or rename the metric to describe discovered URLs.

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[error] 55: [AR1] Anti-Refusal Statement: Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.

Remediation: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.

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[warning] 26: [RP1] null: npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Remediation: Pin the version: npx @scope/server@1.2.3

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