feat(pi-fff): support global config file - #790
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughpi-fff now reads global ChangesGlobal configuration
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A saved session can override the configured startup mode after tools are registered, causing the reported mode and available tools or autocomplete behavior to disagree. This startup correctness issue should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Pi as Pi startup
participant Config as loadConfig
participant Resolve as getConfigValue
participant Tools as Tool registration
Pi->>Config: Read pi-fff.json
Config-->>Pi: Return validated configuration
Pi->>Resolve: Apply flag, environment, file, fallback precedence
Resolve-->>Pi: Return resolved settings
Pi->>Tools: Register tools with startup settings
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In `@packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 331-337: Update the startup flow around currentMode and
resolveToolNames so any restored session mode is applied before toolNames and
related handlers are registered; alternatively, stop restoring the saved mode
during startup. Ensure the registered tools, autocomplete behavior, and reported
active mode all derive from the same final mode rather than allowing the later
session-start overwrite.
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| let currentMode = getConfigValue( | ||
| "fff-mode", | ||
| "PI_FFF_MODE", | ||
| config.mode, | ||
| "tools-and-ui", | ||
| ); | ||
| const toolNames = resolveToolNames(currentMode); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the startup mode consistent with registered tools.
The session-start handler later overwrites currentMode from a saved entry. It can override the CLI, environment, or file mode after toolNames is fixed.
For example, file mode override registers grep and find, then a restored tools-only mode disables autocomplete and reports a different active mode. Resolve the restored mode before registration, or do not restore it during startup.
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In `@packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts` around lines 331 - 337, Update the startup flow
around currentMode and resolveToolNames so any restored session mode is applied
before toolNames and related handlers are registered; alternatively, stop
restoring the saved mode during startup. Ensure the registered tools,
autocomplete behavior, and reported active mode all derive from the same final
mode rather than allowing the later session-start overwrite.
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This behavior predates this PR and comes from #593. main already fixes toolNames during extension registration, then restores currentMode from the session in session_start. This change only routes the existing startup sources through getConfigValue() and adds the file as another source.
Fixing the mismatch would change /fff-mode persistence semantics, so I am leaving it out of this config-file PR.
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@XWIlluDelu Correct. The mismatch predates this PR. This PR only adds another startup source.
The issue remains valid, but it is separate from the config-file scope and can change /fff-mode persistence behavior. Do you want a follow-up GitHub issue for it?
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Repo: dmtrKovalenko/fff PR: 790
File: packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts:331-337
Timestamp: 2026-08-16T16:53:24.637Z
Learning: In `packages/pi-fff/src/index.ts`, `toolNames` is fixed during extension registration while `currentMode` can later be restored from a persisted `fff-mode` session entry during `session_start`. This behavior predates the global `pi-fff.json` configuration work and originates from `#593`. Changing it can alter `/fff-mode` persistence semantics.
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Generally LGTM but it would be great to provide json schema official for config options autocomplete
Sync of dmtrKovalenko/fff (b71b7cf..be2dd8d). Notable upstream work: LMDB env lifecycle overhaul — one shared env per canonical path per process (dmtrKovalenko#775) plus a new env_pool with raised max_readers to avoid MDB_READERS_FULL (dmtrKovalenko#783); standalone constraints in multi_grep (dmtrKovalenko#753); a parent-liveness watcher so the MCP no longer exits while its parent is alive (dmtrKovalenko#770); file-picker rebuild after FFFClearCache (dmtrKovalenko#772); readOnlyHint on all tools (dmtrKovalenko#771); and pi-fff global config (dmtrKovalenko#790). Why these resolutions: - Version: our workspace is 0.18.0; upstream bumped 0.10.3 -> 0.10.5. Kept 0.18.0 in every Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock version conflict while preserving upstream's non-version additions (zlob =1.6.3, fff-core crate-type = ["rlib"], fff-mcp windows-sys target dep for the new Windows parent watcher). - dbs/ module: the dbs/ reorg already lives in our shared merge base, so this sync only adds upstream's new env_pool.rs (additive, no rename conflict). Our eviction feature already targets dbs/. - dmtrKovalenko#775 shared-env x our idle/stale root eviction (f40b086): verified compatible. Eviction drops EngineState (hence FrecencyTracker's SharedEnv) via Drop only — it never calls SharedEnv::destroy and never deletes on-disk data.mdb (the only file removal in env_pool is the size-cap guard). Dropping the last holder closes the env; a re-register reopens the same canonical path from the process pool, so per-slug frecency persists across an evict -> re-register cycle. Eviction machinery unchanged: last_access_ms stamping, drop_root's Arc::strong_count>1 live-connection guard, the reaper phases, idle_root_ttl_secs config, RootHealth.last_access_age_sec (kept the appended-LAST field for bincode order), and the ctl IDLE column. - fff-mcp/Cargo.toml: unioned our fff-ipc/dirs/libc deps, clap_complete, and [package.metadata.deb] with upstream's new windows-sys target block; dev tempfile pinned to upstream's 3.8. - fff-mcp/src/main.rs: kept our set-log-level/completions args and added upstream's `mod parent;`, taking upstream's reworded idle-timeout doc comment. - multi_pattern.rs: three-way merge kept both our `recheck` field and upstream's prefilter_files standalone-constraint path. - Makefile: unioned upstream's build-e2e target with our daemon targets. - release.yaml: kept our publishing guards (PyPI gated to upstream's owner; crates.io and npm disabled via `if: false`). - install-mcp.sh: kept the pinned-tag + SHA256 block removed (we ship via Homebrew/apt); upstream's re-add discarded. Build: cargo build -p fff-mcp -p fff-engine -p fff-ctl green. Tests: 480 passed / 0 failed across fff-search, fff-engine, fff-ipc, fff-ctl, including lmdb_env_pool (4), lmdb_readers_full_repro (2), and lmdb_stale_lock_deadlock (4).
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Added this as a focused follow-up in #791. It includes the schema in the package and supports an in-file |
Closes #789.
This adds an optional global
pi-fff.jsonin pi's existing agent directory. It supports the five documented startup settings:{ "mode": "override", "frecencyDbPath": "/path/to/frecency", "historyDbPath": "/path/to/history", "enableFsRootScanning": false, "enableHomeDirScanning": true }getConfigValue()handles the same lookup order for every setting:The loader reuses
piDataDir()frompaths.tsand performs one synchronous read. It ignoresENOENT; malformed JSON, unknown keys, wrong types, and other read failures stop extension registration with the config path in the error.PI_FFF_MULTIGREPremains unchanged because it is undocumented and marked for removal in the source.Checks
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pi-fff.jsonfile.Documentation