T3 starts short-lived pi --mode rpc processes for provider status and command discovery, text generation and thread forks, and stops each one as soon as Pi answers. In RPC mode Pi starts a background model-catalog refresh at launch (unless --offline), and that refresh renews an expired OAuth credential. When T3 stops Pi after the token request has gone out but before the response is saved, the single-use refresh token is spent and auth.json keeps it, so the next use of that login fails with OAuth refresh failed for openai: … {"error": "invalid_grant"}. A hard kill also leaves auth.json.lock behind, and the next Pi start hangs for about 30 s.
Reproduced on main cefb544af3 with Pi 1.4.0, an expired openai OAuth login in a scratch agent dir, and a fake auth.openai.com with single-use rotation: T3's discovery command stopped 100, 150 or 200 ms after its answers (SIGTERM, or SIGKILL as on Windows) lost the rotated token every time, and the next refresh got invalid_grant.
buildPiRpcLaunch takes an offline input that appends --offline after the user's launch arguments. Discovery (status.ts), text generation (textGeneration.ts) and forks (adapter.ts) set it. Thread sessions keep exactly the user's launch arguments, so they still refresh the catalog and renew credentials in a process that is not stopped right away. A credential that expires is renewed on its next request instead, which runs to completion before T3 stops the process.
--offline also turns off Pi's other startup network work in these processes: installing a configured package that is missing, refreshing temporary git sources, update and version checks, and downloading fd/rg. A package listed in Pi's settings but not yet installed therefore shows its commands after a thread session has installed it, instead of after the next discovery probe.
The same applies to extensions that discover models when they load and honour PI_OFFLINE, such as pi-provider-litellm. Discovery then shows the catalog Pi has stored, which thread sessions keep writing, so on a first run those models appear in T3 after one Pi thread has run instead of right away.
Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#30182
status.test.ts "starts discovery Pi offline so stopping it cannot interrupt a credential refresh" (status and per-workspace command discovery), textGeneration.test.ts "starts text generation Pi offline so stopping it cannot interrupt a credential refresh", and adapter.test.ts "starts fork Pi offline while the thread session keeps refreshing the catalog" (also asserts the thread session is not offline). On main: expected [ '--mode', 'rpc', '--no-session' ] to include '--offline'.vp test run on status, textGeneration, adapter and mcpInjection tests: 124 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (9 packages) and tests pass.| Probe stopped | Token request during probe | Stored refresh token after | Next refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIGTERM 100 / 150 / 200 ms after answers | yes, rt-1 rotated to rt-2 | rt-1 (spent) | invalid_grant |
| SIGKILL 200 ms after answers | yes, rotated | rt-1 (spent), auth.json.lock left | next Pi hung > 30 s |
SIGTERM 150 ms, --offline | none | rt-1, then rt-2 from the normal Pi | rotated and saved |
SIGKILL 200 ms, --offline | none | rt-1, then rt-2 from the normal Pi | rotated and saved |
| not stopped for 5 s | yes, rotated | rt-2 | saved |
The repro scripts were not uploaded (no file host was available), so they are inline below.
| 1 | # Pi 1.4.0, hermetic: fake auth.openai.com (single-use rotation, 150 ms each way) behind a deny-all proxy. Synthetic credentials only. |
| 2 | # Each run: fresh agent dir with expired openai OAuth (refresh rt-1); T3-style probe 'pi --mode rpc --no-session [--offline]' (get_state, get_available_models, get_commands), stopped N ms after answers; then a normal follow-up probe (stopped 3 s after answers). |
| 3 | |
| 4 | == sigterm-100 |
| 5 | driver {"t":1793714929020,"ms":7,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session"]} |
| 6 | driver {"t":1793714929471,"ms":458,"event":"answered"} |
| 7 | driver {"t":1793714929572,"ms":559,"event":"SIGTERM"} |
| 8 | driver {"t":1793714929595,"ms":582,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 9 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714929.653} |
| 10 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714929.804} |
| 11 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "invalid_grant", "t": 1793714930.814} |
| 12 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 400, "t": 1793714930.965} |
| 13 | followup: {"t":1793714933669,"ms":3415,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 14 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-1 |
| 15 | |
| 16 | == sigterm-150 |
| 17 | driver {"t":1793714934343,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session"]} |
| 18 | driver {"t":1793714934747,"ms":409,"event":"answered"} |
| 19 | driver {"t":1793714934898,"ms":560,"event":"SIGTERM"} |
| 20 | driver {"t":1793714934920,"ms":582,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 21 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714934.924} |
| 22 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714935.074} |
| 23 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "invalid_grant", "t": 1793714936.171} |
| 24 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 400, "t": 1793714936.322} |
| 25 | followup: {"t":1793714939039,"ms":3461,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 26 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-1 |
| 27 | |
| 28 | == sigterm-200 |
| 29 | driver {"t":1793714939737,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session"]} |
| 30 | driver {"t":1793714940163,"ms":431,"event":"answered"} |
| 31 | driver {"t":1793714940363,"ms":631,"event":"SIGTERM"} |
| 32 | driver {"t":1793714940393,"ms":661,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 33 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714940.338} |
| 34 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714940.489} |
| 35 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "invalid_grant", "t": 1793714941.657} |
| 36 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 400, "t": 1793714941.807} |
| 37 | followup: {"t":1793714944519,"ms":3468,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 38 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-1 |
| 39 | |
| 40 | == hardkill-200 |
| 41 | driver {"t":1793714945202,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session"]} |
| 42 | driver {"t":1793714945605,"ms":408,"event":"answered"} |
| 43 | driver {"t":1793714945806,"ms":609,"event":"SIGKILL"} |
| 44 | driver {"t":1793714945824,"ms":627,"event":"exited","code":null,"signal":"SIGKILL","storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 45 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714945.78} |
| 46 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714945.931} |
| 47 | followup: {"t":1793714976539,"ms":30042,"event":"exited","code":null,"signal":"SIGTERM","storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 48 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-1 |
| 49 | |
| 50 | == offline-sigterm-150 |
| 51 | driver {"t":1793714977218,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session","--offline"]} |
| 52 | driver {"t":1793714977606,"ms":393,"event":"answered"} |
| 53 | driver {"t":1793714977756,"ms":543,"event":"SIGTERM"} |
| 54 | driver {"t":1793714977777,"ms":564,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 55 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714979.026} |
| 56 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714979.176} |
| 57 | followup: {"t":1793714981881,"ms":3448,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-2","stderr":""} |
| 58 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-2 |
| 59 | |
| 60 | == offline-hardkill-200 |
| 61 | driver {"t":1793714982562,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session","--offline"]} |
| 62 | driver {"t":1793714982946,"ms":389,"event":"answered"} |
| 63 | driver {"t":1793714983146,"ms":589,"event":"SIGKILL"} |
| 64 | driver {"t":1793714983169,"ms":612,"event":"exited","code":null,"signal":"SIGKILL","storedRefresh":"rt-1","stderr":""} |
| 65 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714984.439} |
| 66 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714984.589} |
| 67 | followup: {"t":1793714987294,"ms":3448,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-2","stderr":""} |
| 68 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-2 |
| 69 | |
| 70 | == no-stop-5s |
| 71 | driver {"t":1793714987989,"ms":5,"event":"spawned","args":["--mode","rpc","--no-session"]} |
| 72 | driver {"t":1793714988380,"ms":396,"event":"answered"} |
| 73 | driver {"t":1793714993386,"ms":5402,"event":"SIGTERM"} |
| 74 | driver {"t":1793714993422,"ms":5438,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-2","stderr":""} |
| 75 | endpoint {"event": "token_request", "refresh_token": "rt-1", "result": "rotated", "issued": "rt-2", "t": 1793714988.556} |
| 76 | endpoint {"event": "token_response_sent", "status": 200, "t": 1793714988.706} |
| 77 | followup: {"t":1793714997543,"ms":3442,"event":"exited","code":143,"signal":null,"storedRefresh":"rt-2","stderr":""} |
| 78 | auth.json refresh after both: rt-2 |
| 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python3 |
| 2 | """HTTP CONNECT proxy that denies all outbound traffic except a fake auth.openai.com. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The fake token endpoint rotates refresh tokens single-use (like ChatGPT's) and adds |
| 5 | 150 ms of latency before and after handling, so a stop can land mid-request. |
| 6 | Every event goes to stdout as one JSON line. |
| 7 | """ |
| 8 | import json, socket, ssl, sys, threading, time |
| 9 | |
| 10 | PORT = int(sys.argv[1]) |
| 11 | DIR = sys.argv[2] |
| 12 | LATENCY = 0.15 |
| 13 | lock = threading.Lock() |
| 14 | state = {"valid": {"rt-1"}, "next": 2} |
| 15 | |
| 16 | |
| 17 | def log(**kw): |
| 18 | kw["t"] = round(time.time(), 3) |
| 19 | print(json.dumps(kw), flush=True) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | |
| 22 | def handle_token(tls): |
| 23 | data = b"" |
| 24 | while b"\r\n\r\n" not in data: |
| 25 | chunk = tls.recv(65536) |
| 26 | if not chunk: |
| 27 | return |
| 28 | data += chunk |
| 29 | head, body = data.split(b"\r\n\r\n", 1) |
| 30 | length = 0 |
| 31 | for line in head.split(b"\r\n")[1:]: |
| 32 | k, _, v = line.partition(b":") |
| 33 | if k.strip().lower() == b"content-length": |
| 34 | length = int(v.strip()) |
| 35 | while len(body) < length: |
| 36 | body += tls.recv(65536) |
| 37 | form = dict(p.split("=", 1) for p in body.decode().split("&") if "=" in p) |
| 38 | rt = form.get("refresh_token") |
| 39 | time.sleep(LATENCY) |
| 40 | with lock: |
| 41 | if rt in state["valid"]: |
| 42 | state["valid"].discard(rt) |
| 43 | new = f"rt-{state['next']}" |
| 44 | state["next"] += 1 |
| 45 | state["valid"].add(new) |
| 46 | log(event="token_request", refresh_token=rt, result="rotated", issued=new) |
| 47 | status, payload = 200, { |
| 48 | "access_token": f"at-{new}", |
| 49 | "refresh_token": new, |
| 50 | "expires_in": 3600, |
| 51 | "scope": "openid offline_access chatgpt.tokens.use.direct", |
| 52 | "token_type": "Bearer", |
| 53 | } |
| 54 | else: |
| 55 | log(event="token_request", refresh_token=rt, result="invalid_grant") |
| 56 | status, payload = 400, {"error": "invalid_grant"} |
| 57 | time.sleep(LATENCY) |
| 58 | out = json.dumps(payload).encode() |
| 59 | reason = "OK" if status == 200 else "Bad Request" |
| 60 | try: |
| 61 | tls.sendall( |
| 62 | f"HTTP/1.1 {status} {reason}\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nContent-Length: {len(out)}\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n".encode() |
| 63 | + out |
| 64 | ) |
| 65 | log(event="token_response_sent", status=status) |
| 66 | except OSError as e: |
| 67 | log(event="token_response_lost", error=str(e)) |
| 68 | |
| 69 | |
| 70 | def client(conn): |
| 71 | try: |
| 72 | req = b"" |
| 73 | while b"\r\n\r\n" not in req: |
| 74 | chunk = conn.recv(4096) |
| 75 | if not chunk: |
| 76 | return |
| 77 | req += chunk |
| 78 | first = req.split(b"\r\n", 1)[0].decode() |
| 79 | method, target, _ = first.split(" ", 2) |
| 80 | if method != "CONNECT" or not target.startswith("auth.openai.com:"): |
| 81 | log(event="denied", target=target, method=method) |
| 82 | conn.sendall(b"HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n") |
| 83 | return |
| 84 | conn.sendall(b"HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established\r\n\r\n") |
| 85 | ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS_SERVER) |
| 86 | ctx.load_cert_chain(f"{DIR}/leaf.pem", f"{DIR}/leaf.key") |
| 87 | tls = ctx.wrap_socket(conn, server_side=True) |
| 88 | handle_token(tls) |
| 89 | except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001 |
| 90 | log(event="error", error=repr(e)) |
| 91 | finally: |
| 92 | try: |
| 93 | conn.close() |
| 94 | except OSError: |
| 95 | pass |
| 96 | |
| 97 | |
| 98 | srv = socket.socket() |
| 99 | srv.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) |
| 100 | srv.bind(("127.0.0.1", PORT)) |
| 101 | srv.listen(64) |
| 102 | log(event="listening", port=PORT) |
| 103 | while True: |
| 104 | c, _ = srv.accept() |
| 105 | threading.Thread(target=client, args=(c,), daemon=True).start() |
| 1 | // Mimics T3's Pi discovery probe: spawn `pi --mode rpc --no-session [--offline]` detached, |
| 2 | // send get_state/get_available_models/get_commands, then stop it the way T3 does after |
| 3 | // `delayMs` (SIGTERM to the process group, SIGKILL after 1 s; or SIGKILL at once with --hard). |
| 4 | // Usage: node probe_driver.mjs <agentDir> <proxyPort> <caPem> <delayMs> [--offline] [--hard] |
| 5 | import { spawn } from "node:child_process"; |
| 6 | import { readFileSync } from "node:fs"; |
| 7 | |
| 8 | const [agentDir, proxyPort, caPem, delayArg, ...flags] = process.argv.slice(2); |
| 9 | const offline = flags.includes("--offline"); |
| 10 | const hard = flags.includes("--hard"); |
| 11 | const args = ["--mode", "rpc", "--no-session", ...(offline ? ["--offline"] : [])]; |
| 12 | const env = { |
| 13 | ...process.env, |
| 14 | PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR: agentDir, |
| 15 | HTTPS_PROXY: `http://127.0.0.1:${proxyPort}`, |
| 16 | HTTP_PROXY: `http://127.0.0.1:${proxyPort}`, |
| 17 | NO_PROXY: "", |
| 18 | NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY: "1", |
| 19 | NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS: caPem, |
| 20 | }; |
| 21 | const t0 = Date.now(); |
| 22 | const log = (event, extra = {}) => |
| 23 | console.log(JSON.stringify({ t: Date.now(), ms: Date.now() - t0, event, ...extra })); |
| 24 | const child = spawn("pi", args, { env, detached: true, stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"] }); |
| 25 | log("spawned", { args }); |
| 26 | const requests = ["get_state", "get_available_models", "get_commands"]; |
| 27 | let answered = 0; |
| 28 | let buf = ""; |
| 29 | child.stdout.on("data", (d) => { |
| 30 | buf += d; |
| 31 | let i; |
| 32 | while ((i = buf.indexOf("\n")) >= 0) { |
| 33 | const line = buf.slice(0, i); |
| 34 | buf = buf.slice(i + 1); |
| 35 | let rec; |
| 36 | try { |
| 37 | rec = JSON.parse(line); |
| 38 | } catch { |
| 39 | continue; |
| 40 | } |
| 41 | if (rec.type === "response" && requests.includes(rec.command)) { |
| 42 | answered += 1; |
| 43 | if (answered === requests.length) { |
| 44 | log("answered"); |
| 45 | setTimeout(stop, Number(delayArg)); |
| 46 | } |
| 47 | } |
| 48 | } |
| 49 | }); |
| 50 | let stderr = ""; |
| 51 | child.stderr.on("data", (d) => (stderr += d)); |
| 52 | for (const [n, type] of requests.entries()) { |
| 53 | child.stdin.write(JSON.stringify({ id: `r${n}`, type }) + "\n"); |
| 54 | } |
| 55 | function stop() { |
| 56 | if (hard) { |
| 57 | log("SIGKILL"); |
| 58 | process.kill(-child.pid, "SIGKILL"); |
| 59 | return; |
| 60 | } |
| 61 | log("SIGTERM"); |
| 62 | process.kill(-child.pid, "SIGTERM"); |
| 63 | setTimeout(() => { |
| 64 | try { |
| 65 | process.kill(-child.pid, "SIGKILL"); |
| 66 | log("SIGKILL after grace"); |
| 67 | } catch {} |
| 68 | }, 1000); |
| 69 | } |
| 70 | child.on("exit", (code, signal) => { |
| 71 | const auth = JSON.parse(readFileSync(`${agentDir}/auth.json`, "utf8")); |
| 72 | log("exited", { code, signal, storedRefresh: auth.openai?.refresh, stderr: stderr.slice(-300) }); |
| 73 | process.exit(0); |
| 74 | }); |
| 75 | setTimeout(() => { |
| 76 | log("timeout: no answers"); |
| 77 | stop(); |
| 78 | }, 30000); |
| 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash |
| 2 | # Usage: run.sh <label> <delayMs> [driver flags...] |
| 3 | # Fresh scratch agent dir with an expired openai OAuth credential (refresh rt-1), fresh fake |
| 4 | # token endpoint, one T3-style probe, then a normal follow-up probe that needs the stored token. |
| 5 | set -u |
| 6 | R=/tmp/issue-lead-30182-r1/repro |
| 7 | label=$1; delay=$2; shift 2 |
| 8 | run="$R/runs/$(date +%H%M%S%N)-$label" |
| 9 | mkdir -p "$run/agent" |
| 10 | expired=$(( ($(date +%s) - 3600) * 1000 )) |
| 11 | cat > "$run/agent/auth.json" <<EOF |
| 12 | {"openai":{"type":"oauth","access":"at-old","refresh":"rt-1","expires":$expired,"clientId":"app_fake","accountId":"acct_fake"}} |
| 13 | EOF |
| 14 | port=$(( 20000 + RANDOM % 20000 )) |
| 15 | python3 -u "$R/fake_oauth_proxy.py" "$port" "$R" > "$run/proxy.log" 2>&1 & |
| 16 | proxy=$! |
| 17 | sleep 0.3 |
| 18 | node "$R/probe_driver.mjs" "$run/agent" "$port" "$R/ca.pem" "$delay" "$@" > "$run/driver.log" 2>&1 |
| 19 | sleep 0.6 |
| 20 | node "$R/probe_driver.mjs" "$run/agent" "$port" "$R/ca.pem" 3000 > "$run/followup.log" 2>&1 |
| 21 | sleep 0.3 |
| 22 | kill "$proxy" 2>/dev/null |
| 23 | echo "$run" |
Not checked: Windows and macOS runs (the stop paths are unchanged and the fix only changes Pi's arguments), and an end-to-end run through a T3 server with a real ChatGPT login.
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Pi discovery, background text generation, and fork helpers now start offline to prevent interrupted catalog refreshes from losing login credentials. This changes their default refresh behavior and requires human acceptance of that tradeoff; interactive sessions remain unchanged.
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Baseline: cefb544 · PR result: b81b784 · Source CI: success
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The Pi RPC launch builder now supports an optional offline flag. Status checks, command discovery, text generation, and fork processes enable offline mode. Regression tests check the arguments passed to these launches.
Changes: Pi offline launch behavior
| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
|---|---|
Add the offline launch option packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.ts | buildPiRpcLaunch accepts an optional offline flag and adds --offline when the flag is true. |
Enable offline mode for short-lived processes packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/textGeneration.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/textGeneration.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts | Status checks, command discovery, text generation, and forks enable offline mode. Regression tests verify the launch arguments, including that the source process does not receive --offline when a fork launches. |
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Suggested reviewers: stienswout, only21mil
b81b7Short-lived Pi probes will no longer spend OAuth refresh tokens when they are stopped. Offline discovery may under-report network-provided models or commands from uninstalled packages until the next rescan, but this is an accepted and bounded tradeoff, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.
| Check name | Status | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Title check | Passed | The title clearly identifies the Pi login failure and the affected short-lived discovery and text-generation processes. It accurately summarizes the primary fix, although it does not mention forks. |
| Linked Issues check | Passed | Directly linked issue #30182 has these coding requirements. (1) Short-lived Pi RPC processes must not renew OAuth tokens before T3 stops them. Discovery (status.ts, makePiDiscoveryConnection, and per-… |
| Out of Scope Changes check | Passed | Every changed hunk serves the #30182 fix. The changes are the new offline input in buildPiRpcLaunch, its three call sites (status.ts, textGeneration.ts, adapter.ts forkThread), and regression tests in… |
| Description check | Passed | The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section states the bug, the reproduction environment, and the failur… |
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Directly linked issue #30182 has these coding requirements. (1) Short-lived Pi RPC processes must not renew OAuth tokens before T3 stops them. Discovery (status.ts, makePiDiscoveryConnection, and per-workspace command discovery per the status test), text generation (textGeneration.ts), and forks (adapter.ts forkThread) now pass offline: true. mcpInjection.ts appends --offline after the user's launch arguments when offline is true. The diff confirms these call sites. The three named regression tests assert --offline on these launches. The PR runtime table shows offline probes made no token request, and a later normal Pi process refreshed and saved the rotated token. (2) Long-lived thread sessions must keep normal catalog refresh and credential renewal. The thread session launch in adapter.ts is unchanged, and the adapter test asserts the thread session is not offline. (3) Hard-killed probes must not leave auth.json.lock behind or stall the next start. The lock comes from the refresh path, which offline probes no longer run. The PR does not record lock state for offline hard-kill runs, so this point rests on the mechanism and the absence of a token request. Items the issue mentions but this PR does not test (Pi 1.5.0, Windows and macOS runs, a full T3 server run) are verification gaps, not missing code. The Pi-side work in earendil-works/pi#11692 is outside this change.
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Every changed hunk serves the #30182 fix. The changes are the new offline input in buildPiRpcLaunch, its three call sites (status.ts, textGeneration.ts, adapter.ts forkThread), and regression tests in status, textGeneration and adapter tests. No unrelated production code or configuration changes appear in the reviewed diffs. The PR description discloses that --offline also disables other startup network work in these short-lived processes: missing package installs, temporary git source refresh, update and version checks, and fd/rg downloads. These effects come from Pi's flag, not from separate code in this PR. They apply only to discovery, text generation and forks, and they do not change thread sessions. Deferred package installation for discovery is a user-visible trade-off, not an unrelated change.
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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section states the bug, the reproduction environment, and the failure mode. The Change section explains the offline flag and which call sites set it. The Scope section links issue #30182. The Verification section lists the named failing-then-passing tests, the test and check commands with results, a runtime table with observed outcomes, and what was not checked (Windows, macOS, and an end-to-end run with a real ChatGPT login). The description ends with the model and harness that did the work, as the template asks. The Scope and approval section cites a linked issue but does not quote a maintainer approval comment. The template asks for approval of direction and scope, so a reviewer may want to confirm that approval exists. Adding a reference to that comment would close this gap.
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153-153: External image Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy liftExternal image Unverified finding Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Handle configured packages that are not installed yet.
With
--offline, Pi skips installation of missing configured packages. On a fresh workspace, command discovery can succeed without their skills and slash commands, so T3 publishes an incomplete catalog until an online Pi launch installs the packages. Preserve package provisioning or report the incomplete discovery instead. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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| 7 | Review comments at @packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts: |
| 8 | - Line 153: Update the provider configuration setting `offline: true` so |
| 9 | uncached catalogs can safely discover models when credentials and the endpoint |
| 10 | are usable. Preserve safeguards for credential refresh, and ensure discovery |
| 11 | does not terminate the process; establish the appropriate behavior for offline |
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| … | … | @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ const makePiDiscoveryConnection = Effect.fnUntraced(function* ( | |
| 150 | 150 | mcpSession: undefined, | |
| 151 | 151 | extensionPath: undefined, | |
| 152 | 152 | ephemeral: true, | |
| 153 | + | offline: true, | |
External image Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Preserve discovery for uncached provider catalogs.
--offline disables network model discovery. A provider such as LiteLLM can therefore return no models on a fresh cache, even when its credentials and endpoint work. T3 then omits those models from the picker or falls back to an unknown status. Preserve a safe way to populate the catalog without terminating a process during credential refresh. (github.com)
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| 6 | Review comment at @packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts at line 153: |
| 7 | Update the provider configuration setting `offline: true` so uncached catalogs |
| 8 | can safely discover models when credentials and the endpoint are usable. |
| 9 | Preserve safeguards for credential refresh, and ensure discovery does not |
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Checked against Pi 1.4.0 and pi-provider-litellm main. This is partly right; the remaining effect is a deliberate trade-off rather than a bug.
get_available_models returns the current snapshot (rpc-mode.js), and the network refresh runs in the background after launch. On main, T3 stops the probe right after it answers, which is exactly what spends the single-use refresh token.PI_OFFLINE set, pi-provider-litellm skips its startup discovery (src/index.ts, seedModels). Its own comment notes that once Pi has persisted the catalog, Pi still offers the stored models. Thread sessions keep running online, so they still write that store.invalid_grant loss in #30182, because the probe that runs every five minutes is the main trigger. There is no Pi switch that turns off credential-refreshing network work while leaving extension discovery on.The PR description now states this trade-off.
@juliusmarminge You’re right. I withdraw the change request.
I treated first-run extension discovery as a defect without accounting for the credential-refresh risk. Pi’s background catalog refresh also differs from extension discovery at activation.
The first-run LiteLLM limitation is an accepted trade-off here. Long-lived online thread sessions can populate the persisted catalog. Keeping short-lived discovery offline prevents the token-loss path described in #30182. No change to offline: true is needed for this finding.
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| 2 | Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 30195 |
| 3 | File: packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts:153-153 |
| 4 | Timestamp: 2026-11-03T14:09:43.239Z |
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@juliusmarminge We've merged a partial fix for this (if I get it correctly: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/11692 ) but on windows we'd need you to not kill pi but instead just close input pipe. That'll allow it to close gracefully.
