Function detectPiBinary

packages/cli/src/lib/pi-helpers.ts:14–29

()

export const PI_PACKAGE_SOURCE = "npm:@cortexkit/pi-magic-context";

export function detectPiBinary(): PiBinaryInfo | null {
    // Node-only PATH walker, not which/where: shelling out fails in
    // Alpine/slim/Nix/bunx sandboxes that lack those binaries (same reason the
    // OpenCode detector switched to findOnPath). findOnPath handles platform
    // extensions (.cmd/.exe) and X_OK checks internally.
    const fromPath = findOnPath("pi");
    if (fromPath) return { path: fromPath, source: "path" };

    const homeCandidate =
        process.platform === "win32"
            ? join(homedir(), ".pi", "bin", "pi.cmd")
            : join(homedir(), ".pi", "bin", "pi");
    if (existsSync(homeCandidate)) return { path: homeCandidate, source: "home" };

    return null;
}

export function getPiVersion(piPath: string): string | null {
    // Pi >= 0.71.x writes `--version` output to stderr, not stdout. Use