pi-share / buildwithpi Session Loader
Load and parse session transcripts from pi-share URLs (shittycodingagent.ai, buildwithpi.ai, buildwithpi.com, pi.dev).
When to Use
Loading sessions: Use this skill when the user provides a URL like:
https://shittycodingagent.ai/session/?<gist_id>https://buildwithpi.ai/session/?<gist_id>https://buildwithpi.com/session/?<gist_id>https://pi.dev/session/?<gist_id>https://pi.dev/session/#<gist_id>- Or just a gist ID like
46aee35206aefe99257bc5d5e60c6121 - Or hash-prefixed shorthand like
#46aee35206aefe99257bc5d5e60c6121
Human summaries: Use --human-summary when the user asks you to:
- Summarize what a human did in a pi/coding agent session
- Understand how a user interacted with an agent
- Analyze user behavior, steering patterns, or prompting style
- Get a human-centric view of a session (not what the agent did, but what the human did)
The human summary focuses on: initial goals, re-prompts, steering/corrections, interventions, and overall prompting style.
How It Works
- Session exports are stored as GitHub Gists
- The URL contains a gist ID after the
? - The gist contains a
session.htmlfile with base64-encoded session data - The helper script fetches and decodes this to extract the full conversation
Usage
bash# Get full session data (default) node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs "<url-or-gist-id>" # Get just the header node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs <gist-id> --header # Get entries as JSON lines (one entry per line) node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs <gist-id> --entries # Get the system prompt node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs <gist-id> --system # Get tool definitions node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs <gist-id> --tools # Get human-centric summary (what did the human do in this session?) node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs <gist-id> --human-summary
Human Summary
The --human-summary flag generates a ~300 word summary focused on the human's experience:
- What was their initial goal?
- How often did they re-prompt or steer the agent?
- What kind of interventions did they make? (corrections, clarifications, frustration)
- How specific or vague were their instructions?
This uses claude-haiku-4-5 via pi -p to analyze the condensed session transcript.
Session Data Structure
The decoded session contains:
typescriptinterface SessionData { header: { type: "session"; version: number; id: string; // Session UUID timestamp: string; // ISO timestamp cwd: string; // Working directory }; entries: SessionEntry[]; // Conversation entries (JSON lines format) leafId: string | null; // Current branch leaf systemPrompt?: string; // System prompt text tools?: { name: string; description: string }[]; }
Entry types include:
message- User/assistant/toolResult messages with content blocksmodel_change- Model switchesthinking_level_change- Thinking mode changescompaction- Context compaction events
Message content block types:
text- Text contenttoolCall- Tool invocation withtoolNameandargsthinking- Model thinking contentimage- Embedded images
Example: Analyze a Session
bash# Pipe entries through jq to filter node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs "<url>" --entries | jq 'select(.type == "message" and .message.role == "user")' # Count tool calls node ~/.pi/agent/skills/pi-share/fetch-session.mjs "<url>" --entries | jq -s '[.[] | select(.type == "message") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "toolCall")] | length'

