Pi Mono: Radius Backups, Gateway Tool Search, and Self-Extending Plugins
P2 gains a backup coordinator with a Radius cloud target and an agent system that can write its own plugins. The pattern is durability and self-sufficiency, backed by gateway efficiency fixes and UX reliability polish.
Duration: PT2M12S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Pi Mono.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Pi Mono
- Published: 2026-11-12T06:06:59Z
- Audio duration: PT2M12S
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Good morning, it's Thursday, November 12th, 2026, and this is Pi Mono.
The throughline today is P2 hardening for real use: backups get a coordinator and a cloud target, and the agent learns to extend itself with plugins.
First, backups. Merged pull request 12042 adds the backup coordinator that finally acts on the Chord outbox, after earlier work to replicate sessions and move the catalog, subagents and shares into Chord stores. Follow-up pull request 12059 connects that coordinator to Radius, so every Chord store can back up…
Second, running Pi behind the Vercel AI gateway. One change routes OpenAI models through the Responses API instead of forcing everything through Anthropic Messages. A second, pull request 12071, preserves hosted tool-search history across stateless requests, so the cached prefix is not lost. And a third, pull…
Third, P2 becomes self-extending. The server now loads and watches a user plugin directory, with a reload tool that reports applied or failed per plugin and a checked example skill for writing plugins. A fix ensures a plugin deleted just before a build is reported as removed even when file-watcher events lag. For…
Also notable: server renames propagate…
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