# Pi Supervisor Foundation

> Use when porting a supervisor/steering loop over an LLM coding agent — LLM-judged done/steer/continue decisions at settled checkpoints, deterministic mid-run stuck signals, algorithmic conversation compaction for judge context, ineffective-steering escalation tiers, session-entry state persistence across compaction/restart, model-locked tool activation, or live streaming-reasoning widgets. Source code and direct tests are ground truth; references carry decisive excerpts and graph retrieval.

- Skill: `ryan-brosas/pi-supervisor-foundation` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 58 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add ryan-brosas/pi-supervisor-foundation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/ryan-brosas/pi-supervisor-foundation/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: ryan-brosas (https://skillmd.com/u/ryan-brosas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/ryan-brosas/pi-supervisor-foundation

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# pi-supervisor: agent supervision + steering foundation

## Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is
historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current
project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this
projection and decide what ships.

## Provenance and revision

- Source record: `pi-supervisor`; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
- Recorded revision: `master@92c0d6df986dfd138f941001e3fcc57a3ee07247`.
- Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence:
  `references/index.md`.

## Topic map

- Representative topics: Supervision lifecycle; Steering decisions; Judge
  infrastructure; Mid-run detection; Compaction pipeline; Live UI; Supervision
  lifecycle (sibling set); Steering decisions (sibling set).
- Scope and retrieval questions: `references/index.md#use-this-for`.
- Complete capsule chooser: `references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump`.
- Detailed grouped map: `references/index.md#capsule-map`.
- Source limitations and portability boundaries: `references/index.md#boundaries`.

## Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only
that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do
not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply
this foundation as a procedure.