fix(server): Pi discovers workspace skills and commands

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Pi’s skill and command picker only discovered resources from the server working directory, so project-local skills and prompt templates were missing.

Discover commands in each workspace using Pi’s existing ephemeral RPC process and overlay them on the instance snapshot. Failed discovery preserves the prior catalog through the existing registry.

Fixes #15810.

Validation: 13 focused tests, server typecheck, scoped lint, and real Pi 1.1.0 probes in two isolated workspaces, including project-trust behavior.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at cdb8e35

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a contained Pi provider bug fix that adds per-workspace command and skill discovery through the existing RPC and snapshot mechanisms, with bounded timeouts and focused coverage for failure cases. It does not alter provider defaults, schemas, deployment behavior, or static-analysis configuration.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Pi now discovers commands and skills for a requested workspace through RPC. PiDriver includes these results in enabled workspace snapshots and handles disabled providers and discovery errors.

Changes

Pi workspace discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
RPC command discovery apps/server/src/provider/PiProvider.ts	RPC connection setup is shared with provider discovery. A new operation reads commands and skills for a workspace and times out after 15 seconds.
Workspace snapshot integration and tests apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/PiDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/PiDriver.test.ts	Enabled Pi workspace snapshots include discovered commands and skills. Tests cover workspace-specific catalogs, disabled providers, discovery failures, and timeouts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PiDriver
  participant discoverPiCommandsForCwd
  participant makePiDiscoveryConnection
  participant PiRPCConnection
  PiDriver->>discoverPiCommandsForCwd: request commands for workspace cwd
  discoverPiCommandsForCwd->>makePiDiscoveryConnection: resolve launch arguments and open scoped connection
  makePiDiscoveryConnection->>PiRPCConnection: launch and drain connection event stream
  discoverPiCommandsForCwd->>PiRPCConnection: read workspace commands
  PiRPCConnection-->>discoverPiCommandsForCwd: return commands and skills
  discoverPiCommandsForCwd-->>PiDriver: return workspace commands and skills

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cdb8e

Workspace discovery appears mergeable with a localized fix: keep configured launch arguments out of structured error details before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cdb8e

A reader can now trigger workspace-specific agent startup to populate a command catalog. Process cleanup and credential safeguards limit exposure, but the permission and project-approval boundaries need validation before treating this as a read-only operation.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: An orchestration-read caller can select the cwd for an extension-capable Pi discovery process without a project-approval step in this discovery path. Whether Pi itself prevents project code from running before trust approval remains unverified.
• Medium · security · inferred: Concurrent fresh refreshes can bypass same-cwd in-flight suppression and start overlapping Pi children under a read-scoped RPC, creating a service-availability exposure beyond the prior server-cwd discovery path.
• Low · reliability · inferred: A successful get_commands reply lacking a commands array is treated as an empty catalog and can replace cached workspace commands, although transport failures preserve the prior snapshot. Whether Pi produces such replies is unknown.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An authenticated orchestration-read caller can request discovery for a cwd on the server host when a Pi instance is enabled. The spawned process has the server's process authority and Pi configuration; the evidence does not establish separate tenant isolation or project ownership for the supplied path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A reader selecting a workspace containing Pi project customizations can trigger Pi startup outside the live session's approval-handling path. The repository does not show whether Pi loads executable project customizations before obtaining trust, so this is not a verified pre-approval code-execution finding.
• inferred — Repeated fresh requests can overlap Pi startups because a fresh request does not join an in-flight same-cwd scan. The 15-second discovery timeout and scoped termination limit individual process lifetimes, but do not themselves limit concurrent starts.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — WebSocket authentication and RPC scope authorization precede refresh. Discovery drains Pi events rather than presenting the live adapter's approval requests; it strips T3 MCP credentials and terminates the scoped child on completion or interruption.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Registry writes are scoped to an instance and cwd and reject a stale result after that snapshot changes. Failed refreshes preserve cached providers; successful replies without a commands array are instead parsed as empty.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish whether project trust is enforced before Pi loads executable workspace customizations; then align discovery's path authorization, approval handling, or isolation with that behavior rather than assuming a catalog read is side-effect-free.
• proposed — Bound concurrent fresh discovery per caller or instance, and reject malformed successful command payloads before replacing a cached workspace catalog.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: Pi now discovers workspace skills and commands.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the implementation, the linked issue, and focused verification results. It does not use the template headings or state explicit maintainer approval, but it provid…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies [#15810]. PiDriver.snapshotForCwd calls discoverPiCommandsForCwd with the workspace path. discoverPiCommandsForCwd starts Pi's ephemeral RPC process in that path and reads `get_…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes stay within [#15810]. PiProvider.ts extracts and reuses the Pi RPC connection setup, adds workspace command discovery, and applies the required timeout and error behavior. `PiDr…

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

apps/server/src/provider/PiProvider.ts (1)

189-189: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Preserve the invalid-launch-argument message at the transport boundary and add a cause or structured attribute.

PiRpcError.detail receives launchArgs.message. This message is built from user-supplied launch arguments (for example, positional prompt '${arg}'). PiRpcError.message includes detail. PiDriver then wraps this error as cause. The coding guidelines require that error attributes stay bounded and contain no command arguments.

Use a fixed detail and put the resolution message in cause, so the raw argument text is only in cause.

Proposed fix

-      return yield* new PiRpcError({ operation: "launch", detail: launchArgs.message });
+      return yield* new PiRpcError({
+        operation: "launch",
+        detail: "invalid launch arguments",
+        cause: launchArgs.message,
+      });

As per coding guidelines: "Attributes and log annotations stay bounded: no raw payloads, command arguments or output... The exact value lives only in cause."

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/PiProvider.ts at line 189:
Update the PiRpcError construction in the launch-argument failure path to use a
fixed, bounded detail and preserve launchArgs.message only in the cause, keeping
raw launch arguments out of the error message and attributes.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/PiProvider.ts:
- Line 189: Update the PiRpcError construction in the launch-argument failure
path to use a fixed, bounded detail and preserve launchArgs.message only in the
cause, keeping raw launch arguments out of the error message and attributes.

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• apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/PiDriver.ts
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