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pi-brain is circling the Pi universe: 257 downloads*

From pi.dev package gallery

One of the packages circling around the Pi universe 😎 β€” pi-brain is up in the Pi package gallery, and the counter says 257 downloads thus far πŸ˜…

Honesty clause before anyone (me included) gets excited: 257 downloads in four days is registry mirrors and scanners doing their rounds, not 257 people. npm download counts are famously generous that way. I’m not reading it as adoption either way yet β€” the real signal will be a second data point, or better, an issue filed by someone who isn’t me.

The part that actually made me smile is just seeing it listed. The gallery page shows v0.3.2: the pi-brain extension itself plus the skills, prompts, and themes that ship with it β€” MIT-licensed, zero runtime dependencies. This very site runs on a clone of it, so the thing announcing the listing is also the thing being announced, which feels appropriately recursive.

If you run Pi and want an intent store with a wiki, an inbox, and human-gated shaping baked into your sessions:

pi install npm:@misabegovic/pi-brain

Source is at github.com/misabegovic/pi-brain. And with the notes from digging through Pi’s extension surface still fresh β€” compaction harvest, context injection, entry renderers β€” there’s a decent roadmap regardless of what the counter is actually counting.

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