Pi Development Workflow

Pi Development Workflow

This guide summarizes a sane workflow for working on the pi integration in OpenClaw.

Type Checking and Linting

• Type check and build: pnpm build
• Lint: pnpm lint
• Format check: pnpm format
• Full gate before pushing: pnpm lint && pnpm build && pnpm test

Running Pi Tests

Run the Pi-focused test set directly with Vitest:

pnpm test -- \
  "src/agents/pi-*.test.ts" \
  "src/agents/pi-embedded-*.test.ts" \
  "src/agents/pi-tools*.test.ts" \
  "src/agents/pi-settings.test.ts" \
  "src/agents/pi-tool-definition-adapter*.test.ts" \
  "src/agents/pi-hooks/**/*.test.ts"

To include the live provider exercise:

OPENCLAW_LIVE_TEST=1 pnpm test -- src/agents/pi-embedded-runner-extraparams.live.test.ts

This covers the main Pi unit suites:

• src/agents/pi-*.test.ts
• src/agents/pi-embedded-*.test.ts
• src/agents/pi-tools*.test.ts
• src/agents/pi-settings.test.ts
• src/agents/pi-tool-definition-adapter.test.ts
• src/agents/pi-hooks/*.test.ts

Manual Testing

Recommended flow:

• Run the gateway in dev mode:
  • pnpm gateway:dev
• Trigger the agent directly:
  • pnpm openclaw agent --message "Hello" --thinking low
• Use the TUI for interactive debugging:
  • pnpm tui

For tool call behavior, prompt for a read or exec action so you can see tool streaming and payload handling.

Clean Slate Reset

State lives under the OpenClaw state directory. Default is ~/.openclaw. If OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR is set, use that directory instead.

To reset everything:

• openclaw.json for config
• credentials/ for auth profiles and tokens
• agents/<agentId>/sessions/ for agent session history
• agents/<agentId>/sessions.json for the session index
• sessions/ if legacy paths exist
• workspace/ if you want a blank workspace

If you only want to reset sessions, delete agents/<agentId>/sessions/ and agents/<agentId>/sessions.json for that agent. Keep credentials/ if you do not want to reauthenticate.

References

• Testing
• Getting Started