Pi Mono: Model Fixes and Fullscreen Image Repair
Model selection for slash-containing provider IDs, durable thinking-level tracking, and fullscreen inline image support headline a quiet period focused on correctness and reliability, alongside new contributor documentation.
Duration: PT2M24S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Pi Mono.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Pi Mono
- Published: 2026-10-26T06:04:45Z
- Audio duration: PT2M24S
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Good morning, it's October 26th, 2026 — you're listening to Pi Mono.
No single feature dominates today. The pattern is small correctness fixes that keep existing workflows from failing quietly, plus documentation to help contributors navigate the system.
First, model and generation state is handled more accurately. Pull request 11393 fixes model references when the provider identifier itself contains a slash. That happens with URL-based identifiers from the local Llama server extension, where listing models worked but selecting one with provider slash model on the…
Second, terminal display and contributor onboarding. Pull request 11411 keeps iTerm2 inline images enabled in fullscreen mode. Previously, entering the alternate screen disabled image support, so tool results containing images fell back to text placeholders. Now fullscreen redraws continue to emit inline image data…
What's next: if you run self-hosted models, re-test command-line model selection with slash-containing provider names, and if you review multimodal tool output, check fullscreen rendering for placement issues. For durable workflows, verify that recorded thinking levels carry through recovery as expected.
That's…
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