Updates, deep dives, and release notes for rpiv-pi.https://rpiv-pi.com/en-ushttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/shell-substitution-in-skills/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/shell-substitution-in-skills/Two probing turns at the start of every commit was the wrong default. rpiv-args 1.10 lets Pi skills inline shell output and runtime variables — the same primitive Claude Code ships, ported to Pi.Tue, 19 May 2026 17:30:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/one-morning-of-the-loop/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/one-morning-of-the-loop/Issue #32 from a two-part feature request to a second approved review in three and a half hours. A walk-through of what driver-in-the-loop looks like when you can read every artifact along the way.Mon, 18 May 2026 16:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-9-0/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-9-0/rpiv-advisor learns when to step back without disappearing, and ask-user-question stops hiding the bottom of its own dialog.Mon, 18 May 2026 15:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/the-self-verify-trap/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/the-self-verify-trap/v1.8.2 shipped half its FRD. Here is what broke, why the design skill missed it, and which blueprint upgrade from this month would have caught it.Sun, 17 May 2026 23:30:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-8-2/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-8-2/Pipeline artifacts move from thoughts/shared/ to .rpiv/artifacts/, and rpiv-site clears its W3C HTML/CSS validation errors.Sun, 17 May 2026 22:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-8-0/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-8-0/rpiv-web-tools learns five new search engines, /web-search-config gets a friendlier picker, raw fetch refuses to talk to your localhost, and the web-search-researcher stops hiding in its own room.Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-7-0/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-7-0/rpiv-advisor learns to keep quiet around strong executor models, bundled agents move to a single global home, and the blog finally has a proper front door.Fri, 15 May 2026 18:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/how-we-test-skills/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/how-we-test-skills/A small recipe for evaluating prompt changes against data instead of vibes: parallel arms, cheat-sheet answers, blinded LLM judges on a frozen rubric. The discover vs SAGE A/B is the worked example.Thu, 14 May 2026 22:30:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-6-x/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-6-x/A sharper discover ships as v1.6.0, and v1.6.1 follows up with a fix so the advisor stops replaying stale history after Pi compacts a session.Thu, 14 May 2026 22:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/discover-vs-sage/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/discover-vs-sage/Why the current discover skill is good, and what blind judges said when we A/B'd it against a SAGE-Agent adaptation.Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/discover-dialectic-ab/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/discover-dialectic-ab/Architectural questions in the discover skill now name what they sacrifice, not just what they choose. Decisions arrive with a real rationale instead of agreement, and scope stays on the ask you actually made.Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-5-0/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/release-notes-v1-5-0/A redesigned voice equalizer, a sharper blueprint verifier, and a freshly minted blog, all in lockstep across the rpiv-pi family.Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTjuicesharphttps://rpiv-pi.com/blog/hello-rpiv-pi/https://rpiv-pi.com/blog/hello-rpiv-pi/Introducing the blog — changelogs, deep dives, and release notes for the rpiv-pi pipeline.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTjuicesharp