diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 279f22b..f7ee868 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Fix `omp plugin install` on Oh My Pi 18.x, which rejected 0.6.1 because its pi-ai lacks the `registerApiProvider` export; the compat registration now resolves at runtime and is skipped on hosts that register custom APIs themselves.
+
 ## 0.6.1 - 2026-09-01
 
 - Expose selectable thinking levels (`minimal`, `low`, `medium`, `high`, `xhigh`) for `meta/muse-spark-1.1`, `meta/muse-spark-1.2`, and `meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor` through a manual catalog override, so `/thinking` and `Shift+Tab` no longer stay locked on `off` for these reasoning models.
diff --git a/index.ts b/index.ts
index 12af76c..89a9816 100644
--- a/index.ts
+++ b/index.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,8 @@
  */
 
 import { AssistantMessageEventStream } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai"
-import {
-  registerApiProvider,
-  streamSimple as streamNativeProvider,
-  type ApiStreamSimpleFunction,
-} from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/compat"
+import * as piAiCompat from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/compat"
+import { streamSimple as streamNativeProvider } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai/compat"
 import {
   getAgentDir,
   type ExtensionAPI,
@@ -45,6 +42,24 @@ import { createCommandCodeTransportRouter } from "./src/transport.ts"
 const COMMAND_CODE_API = "commandcode-custom"
 const COMPAT_SOURCE_ID = "pi-commandcode-provider"
 
+type CompatStreamFunction = (
+  model: Parameters<typeof streamNativeProvider>[0],
+  context: Parameters<typeof streamNativeProvider>[1],
+  options?: Parameters<typeof streamNativeProvider>[2],
+) => AssistantMessageEventStream
+
+/**
+ * pi's compat entrypoint exposes `registerApiProvider`; Oh My Pi maps
+ * `@earendil-works/pi-ai/compat` onto its own pi-ai, which lacks that export
+ * and registers custom APIs itself inside `registerProvider`. Resolve the
+ * function at runtime so the extension loads on both hosts.
+ */
+function registerCompatApiProvider(stream: CompatStreamFunction): void {
+  const register = (piAiCompat as { registerApiProvider?: unknown }).registerApiProvider
+  if (typeof register !== "function") return
+  register({ api: COMMAND_CODE_API, stream, streamSimple: stream }, COMPAT_SOURCE_ID)
+}
+
 function commandCodeHeaders(): Record<string, string> | undefined {
   if (process.env.CMD_ZDR === "1" || process.env.COMMANDCODE_ZDR === "1") {
     return { "x-cmd-zdr": "1" }
@@ -135,16 +150,13 @@ export default async function (pi: ExtensionAPI) {
   // custom api there so those calls reach the same transport. The registry
   // resolves no credentials for extension providers, so fall back to the
   // configured key when the caller passes none.
-  const compatStream: ApiStreamSimpleFunction = (model, context, options) =>
+  const compatStream: CompatStreamFunction = (model, context, options) =>
     transport.stream(
       model,
       context,
       options?.apiKey ? options : { ...options, apiKey: getConfiguredApiKey() },
     ) as AssistantMessageEventStream
-  registerApiProvider(
-    { api: COMMAND_CODE_API, stream: compatStream, streamSimple: compatStream },
-    COMPAT_SOURCE_ID,
-  )
+  registerCompatApiProvider(compatStream)
 
   pi.on("message_end", async (event, ctx) => {
     if (event.message.role !== "assistant") return