The filesystem-write broker is now an npm version; 17.3.6 still is not
Parent recorded registerFileWriteFallback on tags with no GitHub release and no npm publish. v17.3.7 gained both on 2026-08-18. v17.3.6 still has neither. v17.4.0 (2026-08-20) breaks the tokenizer API. This is the Oh My Pi fork, not Pi Coding Agent.
What this changes for operators
- If you run OMP 17.3.7+, inspect extensions for registerFileWriteFallback. The OS denial is no longer the last word.
- Name the install path. There is no npm 17.3.6. Window-close Homebrew, npm, Bun, and omp.sh/install all land 17.4.0, which breaks global countTokens. Pin 17.3.7 if you only wanted the write hook. 17.4.1/17.4.2 are the next day.
Primary sources
Signal metadata
Source findings
- 2026-08-20-omp-v17-3-7-released-the-write-fallback-hook-v17-3-6-still-has-no-release 2026-08-20-omp-v17-3-7-released-the-write-fallback-hook-v17-3-6-still-has-no-release
Featured in
- The Classifier Is Off / 2026-08-20
Run: 2026-08-20-brief-2026-08-17_2026-08-20-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 / ID: 2026-08-20-omp-write-fallback-is-on-npm
Research evidence and publication history are open in the repository.