Three coupled pieces of work, all of which ride on the base rebuild that the
mempalace bump forces anyway.
DRIFT ADOPTED
- pi 0.84.2 -> 0.84.3. Its release notes carry a "Breaking Changes" line
(GoogleThinkingLevel -> GoogleApiThinkingLevel). Audited before adopting:
zero references across all four vendored companions (pi-fork,
pi-observational-memory, pi-atelier, pi-studio), so it is inert for us. The
reason to adopt is two skill-discovery fixes that land directly on v1.8.5's
vendored-skill work: nested Markdown skills inside grouping directories were
not discovered, and root README.md/AGENTS.md in skill dirs were reported as
broken skills.
- mempalace core 3.7.1 -> 3.8.0. Additive/reliability only. Its sync fix
(#2320/#2322) stops sync --apply deleting drawers whose source_file was
unreachable *at that moment* -- which does NOT relax the standing landmine
against sync on the shared palace, because that landmine is about paths
permanently absent from whichever host runs the sync. Different failure
shape; the caution stands.
DOCS -- three defects, one of them public
- DOCKER_HUB.md advertised "neovim (LazyVim defaults)". Nothing in the image
installs LazyVim; the only nvim config is a 19-line sysinit.vim. CI PATCHes
this file into the Docker Hub description on every release, so this was a
false claim published to the world. Removed.
- agent-browser + Playwright + Chromium is the single largest addition in the
image (~625 MB) and had zero mentions in README, DOCKER_HUB or THIRD_PARTY --
it was documented only to agents, in the AGENTS.md managed block. Now
documented to humans, including the Chromium licence dimension.
- typst and socat appeared in README prose but not in the "What's inside"
inventory. Added.
OBSERVABILITY -- the three gaps v1.8.5 listed as still open
- build-manifest.json now records mempalace core, read from the live binary
(ground truth, not the build ARG). Placed as a sibling of pi_version rather
than inside components{}, because pi-devbox-version renders that map through
[0:12] and would truncate a version string.
- smoke asserts the pi-observational-memory clone actually CONTAINS the ce9fc98
auth fix, pinned to src/runtime.ts. Deliberately not a repo-wide grep: two of
the three markers also live under tests/, so the repo-wide form stays green
with the fix site reverted. That is the third false-green of this exact family
in this repo (canary phrase in both snapshots; reconciler fixture using a
non-owned name; now this) -- pin containment checks to the fix site.
- smoke asserts the feeder's pi@<device> agent default behaviourally. The
earlier audit concluded this needed a --print-config added upstream; it does
not. AGENT is assigned before arg parsing, so `bash -x mempalace-pi-session
--help` observes the real resolution with no toolkit change. Two-sided:
device set => pi@<device>, unset => must not be pi@*.
- pi-devbox-version now prints a palace: line with the same live-vs-baked drift
detection pi already had. This matters more than it looks: mempalace is the
one component that is both client (here) and server (synlig), so skew between
them is a real failure mode. Degrades quietly on pre-v1.8.6 images.
Deferred deliberately: a native arm64 act_runner on tor-ms22 (the current
runner is on synlig, x86_64, so every arm64 layer ships QEMU-emulated).
Analysis and caveats filed to the palace rather than actioned here.
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Third-party notices
pi-devbox is distributed under the MIT License (see LICENSE), which
covers this repository's own contents — the Dockerfiles, entrypoint scripts,
rootfs/ seeds, CI workflows, and docs.
The published container images (joakimp/pi-devbox:*) additionally bundle
third-party software, each of which remains under its own license. This file is
a good-faith summary; the authoritative sources are the upstream projects and,
for OS packages, the per-package copyright files inside the image at
/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright.
pi and its extensions (installed in the variant layer)
| Component | Upstream | License |
|---|---|---|
pi (@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent) |
npm | MIT |
| pi-fork | github.com/elpapi42/pi-fork | MIT |
| pi-observational-memory | github.com/elpapi42/pi-observational-memory | MIT |
pi-studio (-studio variant only) |
github.com/omaclaren/pi-studio | MIT |
| pi-atelier | github.com/michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier | MIT |
| pi-toolkit, pi-extensions, mempalace-toolkit | authored by the maintainer (Joakim Persson) | MIT |
MemPalace (AI memory)
| Component | Upstream | License |
|---|---|---|
| mempalace (core, MCP server) | github.com/MemPalace/mempalace (PyPI: mempalace) |
MIT — the GitHub repo declares MIT; the PyPI package's own metadata omits a license classifier, so if you need clearance from the package artifact alone, verify against the repo's LICENSE file rather than the sdist/wheel metadata |
Browser automation
| Component | Upstream | License |
|---|---|---|
| agent-browser | github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser (npm: agent-browser) |
Apache-2.0 |
| Playwright | github.com/microsoft/playwright (npm: playwright) |
Apache-2.0 |
| Chromium | chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src | BSD-3-Clause for Chromium's own code, plus a large set of bundled third-party components each under their own license (see Chromium's own LICENSE/about:credits). The binary in this image is not compiled here — it is the build Playwright downloads for its pinned version ("Chrome for Testing"), installed via playwright install --with-deps chromium at /usr/local/share/ms-playwright/. Treat Playwright's own distribution terms for that build as authoritative over any summary here. |
Tooling baked into the base image
| Component | Upstream | License (best effort) |
|---|---|---|
| gosu | github.com/tianon/gosu | Apache-2.0 |
| Node.js | nodejs.org | MIT (bundles components under their own licenses) |
| uv | github.com/astral-sh/uv | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
| Neovim | neovim.io | Apache-2.0 + Vim license |
| Pandoc | pandoc.org | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Typst | github.com/typst/typst | Apache-2.0 |
| ripgrep / fd / micro / tealdeer / yq (mikefarah) | respective repos | MIT / Apache-2.0 / Unlicense (varies) |
Base OS
The image is built FROM a Debian base and installs packages via apt. Debian
and its packages are distributed under their respective licenses (GPL, LGPL,
MIT, BSD, and others). See each package's copyright file in the image under
/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright.
Licenses marked "best effort" are widely known but were not each verified at the exact bundled version; consult the upstream project for authoritative terms. Corrections welcome.