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Problem

T3 stops the pi --mode rpc processes it starts for status and workspace discovery, text generation and forks as soon as they answer: SIGTERM, then SIGKILL after 1 s, or taskkill /T /F on Windows. At launch, Pi starts a background catalog refresh that also renews expired OAuth credentials. If the stop lands mid-request, the provider has already spent the single-use refresh token, auth.json keeps the spent one, and the next refresh fails with invalid_grant. With ChatGPT sign-in, the login dies after the first idle hour while a client is connected (#30182).

Change

 buildPiRpcLaunch({ …, shortLived })
   --mode rpc [--no-session] <user launch args>
+  --offline              # when shortLived, unless the launch args already have it
   [--no-extensions] [--no-tools]

 makePiDiscoveryConnection   (status probe, discoverPiCommandsForCwd)
+  shortLived: true
 text generation
+  shortLived: true
 forkThread
+  shortLived: true
 openSession (thread)        unchanged: follows the user's launch args

--offline skips Pi's network work at startup. Token refresh on the request path and model calls are unaffected. Discovery then lists the catalog Pi has stored (models-store.json), which thread processes still refresh. --offline has existed since Pi 0.55.1, and T3 needs 0.80.5 or later. No contract, setting or migration change.

Scope and approval

Fixes #30182. One problem: Pi processes that T3 stops early start network work at launch.

This is a small, focused fix of an obvious bug: 7 non-test lines in packages/provider-pi, no new setting or default, and threads launch exactly as before. Surfaces: provider-pi spawn arguments only. No client, contract, MCP or docs change.

Not included: a gentler stop. Pi's shutdown waits for the refresh neither on SIGTERM nor when stdin closes, so a gentler stop needs Pi's fix first (earendil-works/pi#11692). This PR does not touch rpc.ts and is independent of #30025.

Reverting is safe: the change keeps no state, and the blast radius is limited to the four short-lived Pi launches.

Verification

vp test run in packages/provider-pi: 155/155 pass.

• Extended cases: both discovery launches (machine and workspace) and the fork launch carry exactly one --offline. The thread launch carries none and no PI_OFFLINE. buildPiRpcLaunch puts it before --no-extensions and does not repeat a user's own --offline.
• New case: text generation spawns Pi with exactly one --offline. No existing case inspected that spawn's arguments.
• With main's production files and these tests, 5 fail. Forcing --offline onto every launch fails 2, including the thread launch.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (9 packages) and the tests beside the changes all pass. Server Pi suites (PiReplayFixtures, ProviderRegistry, providerCompatibility): 80/80.

Before and after against the real Pi 1.5.0. The setup is hermetic: fake credentials, network denied, and a local single-use token endpoint with 150 ms latency each way. Each row is 10 runs, stopped 200 ms after the answers:

Discovery argv	Stop	Token requests	Rotations lost
before	SIGTERM	10	10
before	hard kill (as on Windows)	10	10
after	SIGTERM	0	0
after	hard kill	0	0

• With the new text-generation argv, set_model openai/gpt-6-luna succeeds offline, and the prompt's request-path refresh rotates and saves the token.
• Offline discovery lists a model that an online thread stored from the catalog, and an offline probe does not stop a later thread's catalog refresh.

Runtime transcript from a real install running this change: Windows 11, Pi 1.5.0, no --offline in the launch arguments, a T3 client connected.

11-02 16:33Z         openai access token expires; openai stays unused from here on
11-03 01:06–13:08Z   105 status probes (discoverPiViaRpc), 0 thread turns (older trace files rotated out)
11-03 13:08Z         refresh token unchanged; auth.json last written 11-02 15:36Z
11-03 13:09Z         pi -p --model openai/gpt-6-luna "Reply with exactly OK"  ->  OK
11-03 13:09Z         refresh token rotated and saved, new expiry 14:06Z, no invalid_grant

Not checked: Linux, and a live "before" run against OpenAI's endpoint, which would burn the login. #30182 has the live failures from before the change.

cc @StiensWout, since you've done much of the recent Pi provider work.

Claude Opus 5.5 via Pi in T3 Code

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Short-lived Pi helpers now skip startup network refreshes to prevent lost OAuth token rotations. This also makes model discovery use the stored catalog by default; human review is needed to accept that freshness tradeoff.

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Findings

Do not map an empty offline catalog to unauthenticated.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts:
- Line 153: Update the shortLived status probe so an empty model catalog from
its intentionally offline discovery is reported as unknown, not unauthenticated;
preserve genuine credential-failure reporting and do not add network discovery
or refresh behavior to this probe.

Walkthrough

Short-lived Pi RPC launches now use --offline unless that flag is already present. Discovery, text-generation, and fork launch paths enable this behavior. Long-lived MCP-session launches retain their existing offline settings.

Changes: Pi short-lived launches

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional offline launch policy packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.test.ts	buildPiRpcLaunch accepts shortLived and adds --offline when the option is true and the launch arguments do not already include the flag. Tests cover the added flag and the existing-flag case.
Short-lived process launch call sites packages/provider-pi/src/server/status.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/textGeneration.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/textGeneration.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/adapter.test.ts	Discovery, text generation, and forks set shortLived. Tests check offline flags for those launches and verify that long-lived MCP sessions omit the flag.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

Suggested labels: bugfix, size:S

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to d20e5

A provider with valid credentials can appear unauthenticated until its model catalog is populated. Correct the status result before merging unless this limitation is explicitly accepted.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: preventing short-lived Pi processes from losing rotated OAuth tokens. It uses a suitable conventional commit format.
Description check		The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the failure mode, affected launches, scoped implementation, issue link, compatibility deta…
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #30182 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirement: pass --offline only to short-lived Pi processes that T3 stops after they answer (status and workspace discovery, text ge…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed files are in packages/provider-pi/src/server. The production changes are seven lines: a shortLived option in buildPiRpcLaunch, one shortLived: true each in status.ts, `textGenera…

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The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the failure mode, affected launches, scoped implementation, issue link, compatibility details, test results, runtime validation, and known limitations.

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Linked issue #30182 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirement: pass --offline only to short-lived Pi processes that T3 stops after they answer (status and workspace discovery, text generation, forks), and keep the user's launch arguments for thread processes. The diff implements this. buildPiRpcLaunch in packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.ts adds a shortLived option that appends --offline unless the launch args already contain it. makePiDiscoveryConnection in status.ts sets shortLived: true (status probe and per-workspace discovery). textGeneration.ts sets shortLived: true. adapter.ts sets shortLived: true on the fork launch. The thread openSession path is unchanged and does not set shortLived, so it gets no --offline. Tests cover discovery (machine and workspace), fork, text generation, and the thread launch carrying no --offline. The issue's workaround (global --offline, which also blocks thread catalog refresh and exports PI_OFFLINE) is avoided. Live Windows and macOS repro results, and Linux behavior, were not verified in this review; they are not coding requirements for this check. Pi version gating (0.80.5) is not coded and is not a requirement in the issue.

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Explanation

All changed files are in packages/provider-pi/src/server. The production changes are seven lines: a shortLived option in buildPiRpcLaunch, one shortLived: true each in status.ts, textGeneration.ts, and the fork launch in adapter.ts. Each change serves the #30182 objective of scoping --offline to short-lived launches. The test changes in adapter.test.ts, driver.test.ts, mcpInjection.test.ts, and textGeneration.test.ts assert those launch arguments and the unchanged thread launch, so they support the objective. The summary reports no changes to contracts, settings, client, MCP, or docs. No unrelated change was found.

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Note

🤖 GPT 6.1 Sol responding on behalf of Wout

Thanks for the detailed repro. Scoping --offline to these short-lived helpers looks right to me, and keeping normal thread launches unchanged preserves catalog refreshes.

I checked the empty-catalog concern on Pi 1.5.0 with a fresh agent directory: offline discovery still returned 44 OpenAI models with either a fake API key or fake expired OAuth credentials, with no fetch attempts. Pi retains built-in models without a cached catalog, so I would want a concrete reproduction before treating that bot finding as a blocker.

No blocking findings from my review. This complements #30025, since fixing shutdown ordering alone does not make Pi await its startup refresh.

@Yash-Singh1 could you merge this once the required checks are green? No blockers from my review.