automation

Boost productivity with pi-extensions

Name: Boost productivity with pi-extensions
Author: narumiruna

Get native Chrome DevTools extensions for automation and web scraping, ideal for startup founders and developers using Node.js and TypeScript.

From the repo · “A TypeScript monorepo of Pi Coding Agent extensions for automation, planning, language tooling, browser control, web research, Git workflows, and configuration sync.”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free

732 stars+37★ this week148 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Jul 1Updated 10/24/2026100% free · open source

What it is

You build Chrome DevTools extensions, automations, and integrations using Pi coding agent.

Real use case example

"A founder needs to automate data entry for new customers in Stripe. They install pi-extensions, create an automation that generates fake data, and integrates it with Stripe using a Chrome DevTools extension; the result is automated data entry for their new customers."

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When to use it

•When building a web scraper to extract data from complex websites
•When automating repetitive tasks in Chrome DevTools
•When developing a Node.js or TypeScript application that requires browser automation

Ready-to-paste prompt

Use the Firecrawl extension to scrape all links on a website by running the command 'firecrawl https://example.com --extract links'

Heads up: Make sure to enable developer mode in Chrome and load the unpacked extensions from the pi-extensions repository, as the extensions are not available in the Chrome Web Store

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pi-extensions && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/pi-extensions/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/pi-extensions/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Boost productivity with pi-extensions works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Boost productivity with pi-extensions is a very large TypeScript project (~215k lines across 1050 code files, plus 1016 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~215k lines · 1050 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Node.js

No API keys detected

TypeScript 97%JavaScript 2%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
AGENTS.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
package.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes

What's in each folder

docs/Documentation51 files

deprecated/Archived / older material412 files

packages/pi-sync/Package364 files

packages/pi-starship/Package181 files

packages/pi-tui-kit/Package146 files

packages/pi-inspect/Package119 files

packages/pi-usage/Package113 files

packages/pi-plan-mode/Package86 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksMIT licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pi-extensions && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/pi-extensions/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/pi-extensions/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

narumiruna

Language

TypeScript