skills/pi-subagent/run-agent.sh (view raw)
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#!/bin/bash
# Run one pi subagent, headless, to completion.
#
# run-agent.sh [options] <workdir> <provider> <model> <name>
#
# Options:
# --brief FILE task brief to hand the subagent (default: <workdir>/brief.md)
# --timeout SECS hard wall-clock limit (default: 1800)
# --thinking LEVEL off|minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max (default: high)
# --tools LIST pi tool allowlist, e.g. read,grep,find,ls for a subagent
# that must not run or change anything (default: pi's own)
# --cwd DIR directory the subagent runs in (default: the current one)
# --context-files let pi load AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md from --cwd (default: off)
# --deliver TEXT what the final answer must be (default: "your complete
# result, as markdown")
#
# Sessions -- off by default; a run without --session cannot be continued:
# --session save the conversation as session <name>, under
# <workdir>/sessions/, so it can be followed up or forked
# --followup TEXT send TEXT as the next message in session <name>, instead
# of the brief. <provider> <model> may differ from the
# earlier run's: the new model reads the whole history
# --fork FROM with --followup: start session <name> as a copy of
# session FROM and send TEXT there. FROM is left as it was
#
# A follow-up or fork inherits --tools, --thinking, --cwd and --context-files
# from the run it continues, unless given again: a read-only subagent stays
# read-only. The session is opened by file path, never by id -- by id, pi
# looks only among sessions started in the current directory, and where it
# finds none it starts a new, empty one with that id, exit status 0, and only
# a warning on stderr to say so.
#
# Writes, under <workdir>/out/:
# <name>.md the subagent's final answer: text of its last message
# <name>.cost.json tokens, seconds, exit status, USD cost from the provider
# <name>.jsonl the event stream without per-token deltas, for debugging
# <name>.err pi's stderr
# <name>.running exists only while the run is in flight; holds the PID
#
# A previous run under the same name is never overwritten: its files are moved
# to <name>.attempt<N>.* first, so a retry keeps the bill of the failure -- or
# to <name>.round<N>.* when the new run is a follow-up of it. A retry also
# moves the old session aside, so it starts fresh instead of resuming it.
#
# Exit status is pi's, except that a run pi calls a success is turned into 1
# when its answer is empty or its last message ended in a provider error: pi
# exits 0 for both (an invalid API key, for one), and the cost file records
# the stop reason and error. 124 means the timeout fired -- the run is a
# write-off, but it still cost money; the cost file is written either way.
#
# Six mechanics here were each established the hard way. Do not "simplify"
# them away:
#
# 1. `--offline` is required. pi's startup model-catalog fetch intermittently
# hangs forever; --offline skips it. Symptom without it: the process
# produces no output at all, not even the session line, and never exits.
#
# 2. pi's stdout must be redirected to a FILE, never piped. A pipeline
# deadlocks: `timeout` kills pi, but the downstream reader never sees EOF
# and hangs past its own timeout. This is why filtering happens after the
# run, not inline.
#
# 3. The raw stream is filtered and deleted at once. Older pi re-emitted the
# entire message on every token delta, so it grew quadratically -- 790 MB
# and 3.1 GB on real runs. pi 1.x documents message_update as delta-only,
# but the stream is still mostly deltas nobody reads. Budget generous
# scratch per concurrent subagent until that is confirmed on the version
# in use.
#
# 4. Costs must be summed over every assistant message, not read off the last
# one. Each message carries only its own usage.
#
# 5. pi's stdin must be /dev/null. In -p mode pi also reads stdin when it is
# not a terminal, and waits for EOF. Started from a shell whose stdin never
# closes -- an agent's tool shell, a backgrounded job -- it hangs forever
# with no output at all, which looks exactly like the hang in (1).
#
# 6. Byte counts are stripped of whitespace before jq reads them. macOS `wc -c`
# pads its output (" 6"), jq's tonumber rejects that, and the whole
# cost file silently came out empty.
#
# `timeout` is GNU coreutils and macOS has none unless coreutils is installed,
# where it may be `gtimeout`. Without either, perl's alarm does the same job: it
# survives exec, and SIGALRM ends pi. That exit (142) is reported as 124.
#
# Extensions and skills are always off (-ne -ns): an extension can block on UI
# that a headless run has no way to answer, and the brief should say everything
# the subagent needs to know.
set -u
brief=""; limit=""; thinking=""; tools=""; cwd=""; context=""
deliver="your complete result, as markdown"
session=""; followup=""; fork_from=""; set_tools=""; set_context=""
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
do
case "$1" in
--brief) brief="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--timeout) limit="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--thinking) thinking="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--tools) tools="$2"; set_tools=y; shift 2 ;;
--cwd) cwd="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--context-files) context=y; set_context=y; shift ;;
--deliver) deliver="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--session) session=y; shift ;;
--followup) followup="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--fork) fork_from="$2"; shift 2 ;;
-h|--help) sed -n '2,/^$/p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'; exit 0 ;;
--) shift; break ;;
-*) echo "run-agent.sh: unknown option $1" >&2; exit 2 ;;
*) break ;;
esac
done
P="${1:?workdir}"; provider="${2:?provider}"; model="${3:?model}"; name="${4:?name}"
P="$(cd "$P" && pwd)" || exit 2
out="$P/out"
sessions="$P/sessions"
mkdir -p "$out"
die() { echo "run-agent.sh: $*" >&2; exit 2; }
# The file of session $1 in $sessions, if there is one. pi names it
# <timestamp>_<id>.jsonl; the id in its header line is what decides.
session_file() {
local f
for f in "$sessions"/*_"$1".jsonl
do
[[ -e "$f" ]] || continue
if [[ "$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.id // empty' 2>/dev/null)" == "$1" ]]
then
echo "$f"; return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
is_running() {
local pid
pid="$(cat "$out/$1.running" 2>/dev/null)" && [[ -n "$pid" ]] && kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null
}
# Move run $name's files to $name.$1<N>.*; $1 is "attempt" or "round".
rotate() {
local kind="$1" n=1 ext f
[[ -e "$out/$name.cost.json" || -e "$out/$name.md" || -e "$out/$name.err" ]] || return 0
while [[ -e "$out/$name.$kind$n.cost.json" || -e "$out/$name.$kind$n.err" ]]
do
n=$((n + 1))
done
for ext in md cost.json jsonl err
do
[[ -e "$out/$name.$ext" ]] && mv "$out/$name.$ext" "$out/$name.$kind$n.$ext"
done
if [[ -e "$out/$name.$kind$n.cost.json" ]]
then
f="$(mktemp)"
jq --arg a "$name.$kind$n" '.name = $a' "$out/$name.$kind$n.cost.json" > "$f" \
&& mv "$f" "$out/$name.$kind$n.cost.json"
fi
# A fresh run must not resume the old conversation: pi would, given its id.
if [[ "$kind" == attempt ]] && f="$(session_file "$name")"
then
mv "$f" "$f.attempt$n"
fi
}
is_running "$name" && die "$name is still running"
[[ -n "$fork_from" && -z "$followup" ]] && die "--fork needs --followup"
if [[ -n "$session$followup" ]] && ! [[ "$name" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9]([A-Za-z0-9._-]*[A-Za-z0-9])?$ ]]
then
die "$name cannot be a session id: letters, digits, . _ - only, starting and ending with a letter or digit"
fi
mode=fresh; src=""; src_name=""
if [[ -n "$followup" ]]
then
if [[ -n "$fork_from" ]]
then
mode=fork; src_name="$fork_from"
is_running "$fork_from" && die "$fork_from is still running; fork it once it is done"
if session_file "$name" > /dev/null || [[ -e "$out/$name.cost.json" ]]
then
die "$name already exists; fork into a new name"
fi
else
mode=followup; src_name="$name"
fi
src="$(session_file "$src_name")" \
|| die "no session $src_name in $sessions -- only a run started with --session can be continued"
# Inherit what the earlier run was given, unless overridden.
prev="$out/$src_name.cost.json"
if [[ -e "$prev" ]]
then
[[ -n "$set_tools" ]] || tools="$(jq -r '.tools // empty' "$prev")"
[[ -n "$set_context" ]] || context="$(jq -r 'if .contextFiles then "y" else empty end' "$prev")"
[[ -n "$thinking" ]] || thinking="$(jq -r '.thinking // empty' "$prev")"
[[ -n "$cwd" ]] || cwd="$(jq -r '.cwd // empty' "$prev")"
fi
[[ -n "$cwd" ]] || cwd="$(head -1 "$src" | jq -r '.cwd // empty')"
else
brief="${brief:-$P/brief.md}"
[[ "$brief" == /* ]] || brief="$PWD/$brief"
[[ -s "$brief" ]] || die "no brief at $brief"
fi
thinking="${thinking:-high}"; limit="${limit:-1800}"
cwd="$(cd "${cwd:-.}" && pwd)" || die "no directory $cwd"
if [[ $mode == followup ]]; then rotate round; else rotate attempt; fi
args=(--provider "$provider" --model "$model"
-p -ne -ns --offline
--thinking "$thinking" --mode json)
case $mode in
fresh)
if [[ -n "$session" ]]
then
mkdir -p "$sessions"
args+=(--session-dir "$sessions" --session-id "$name")
else
args+=(--no-session)
fi
prompt="Read the file $brief and do exactly what it says. Deliver $deliver as your final answer." ;;
followup)
args+=(--session "$src")
prompt="$followup" ;;
fork)
args+=(--fork "$src" --session-dir "$sessions" --session-id "$name")
prompt="$followup" ;;
esac
[[ -n "$context" ]] || args+=(-nc)
[[ -n "$tools" ]] && args+=(--tools "$tools")
if command -v timeout > /dev/null; then limiter=(timeout "$limit")
elif command -v gtimeout > /dev/null; then limiter=(gtimeout "$limit")
else limiter=(perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV or die "exec: $!\n"' "$limit")
fi
echo $$ > "$out/$name.running"
trap 'rm -f "$out/$name.running"' EXIT
start=$SECONDS
(
cd "$cwd" || exit 2
exec "${limiter[@]}" pi "${args[@]}" "$prompt" \
< /dev/null > "$out/$name.raw" 2> "$out/$name.err"
)
rc=$?
[[ $rc -eq 142 && "${limiter[0]}" == perl ]] && rc=124
elapsed=$((SECONDS - start))
raw_bytes=$(wc -c < "$out/$name.raw" | tr -d '[:space:]')
grep -v '"type":"message_update"' "$out/$name.raw" > "$out/$name.jsonl"
rm -f "$out/$name.raw"
# The deliverable: text blocks of the last assistant message.
jq -rs '
[.[] | select(.type=="agent_end")] | last | .messages
| [.[] | select(.role=="assistant")] | last
| [.content[] | select(.type=="text") | .text] | join("")
' "$out/$name.jsonl" > "$out/$name.md" 2>/dev/null
# pi exits 0 when the provider refused the request, or the model said nothing.
stop=$(jq -rs '[.[] | select(.type=="message_end" and .message.role=="assistant")]
| last | .message.stopReason // "none"' "$out/$name.jsonl" 2>/dev/null)
if [[ $rc -eq 0 ]] && { [[ "$stop" == error || "$stop" == none ]] || ! grep -q '[^[:space:]]' "$out/$name.md"; }
then
rc=1
fi
session_path=""
if [[ $mode == followup ]]; then session_path="$src"
elif [[ $mode == fork || -n "$session" ]]; then session_path="$(session_file "$name")"
fi
jq -rs --arg name "$name" --arg model "$model" --arg provider "$provider" \
--arg rc "$rc" --arg elapsed "$elapsed" --arg raw "$raw_bytes" \
--arg mode "$mode" --arg from "$src_name" --arg session "$session_path" \
--arg tools "$tools" --arg thinking "$thinking" --arg cwd "$cwd" \
--arg context "$context" '
[.[] | select(.type=="message_end" and .message.role=="assistant") | .message] as $msgs
| ($msgs | last) as $last
| ($msgs | map(.usage))
| {name: $name, provider: $provider, model: $model, exit: ($rc|tonumber),
stopReason: ($last.stopReason // null),
error: ($last.errorMessage // null | if . then .[0:500] else . end),
seconds: ($elapsed|tonumber), turns: length,
input: (map(.input) | add // 0), output: (map(.output) | add // 0),
cacheRead: (map(.cacheRead) | add // 0),
cacheWrite: (map(.cacheWrite) | add // 0),
rawStreamBytes: ($raw|tonumber),
cost: (map(.cost.total) | add // 0),
mode: $mode, from: (if $from == "" then null else $from end),
session: (if $session == "" then null else $session end),
tools: (if $tools == "" then null else $tools end),
thinking: $thinking, cwd: $cwd, contextFiles: ($context != "")}
' "$out/$name.jsonl" > "$out/$name.cost.json" 2>/dev/null
printf '%-20s exit:%-4s stop:%-8s %5ss answer:%7s bytes cost:$%s\n' \
"$name" "$rc" "$stop" "$elapsed" "$(wc -c < "$out/$name.md" | tr -d '[:space:]')" \
"$(jq -r '.cost' "$out/$name.cost.json" 2>/dev/null)"
if [[ $rc -ne 0 ]]
then
jq -r '.error // empty' "$out/$name.cost.json" 2>/dev/null | head -c 300; echo
fi
exit $rc
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