A chat-less interface to collaborate with LLM agents directly from your files
Piqo is a new extension that allows users to collaborate with LLM models directly from their files without the need for a chat interface. It automatically generates content based on specific markers in text files and integrates seamlessly with various editors. This tool is designed to enhance productivity for tasks such as note-taking, writing, and research.
- ▪Piqo is a file-watcher extension that monitors directories for @piqo markers.
- ▪When a file is saved, the LLM generates content based on the instructions provided in the markers.
- ▪The extension supports multiple text file formats and can be installed globally or referenced locally.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/piqoni/piqo-extension |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 17:07:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T17:23:20.841Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T17:23:20.841Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | XZCBlyjdxVgH |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Piqo — Pi Extension A chat-less way to collaborate with your favorite LLM models (remote or local), directly from your files and from any editor. The output is stored automatically into your files. It is a simple file-watcher extension for pi triggered on-save, which monitors directories for @piqo markers and uses the LLM to generate content inline. Might be useful for keeping notes, writing tasks, researching topics, etc. Random Example: If you write the following (highlighted line) and save the file: You will get something like (using gpt-5.4-mini): How It Works You start pi with the piqo extension and specify directories to watch Piqo recursively watches those directories for file changes When a file contains one or more @piqo <instruction> markers, it reads the file, gathers context…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.