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Side questions — /btw

Ask about a long-running flow while it keeps working, without sending another message to the flow's agent or waiting for its current turn.

Try it

/btw what is the reviewer waiting for?

What it reads

The command takes a snapshot of the active flow: its name and task, each agent's current state and turn count, observed handovers, spending, and the latest agent events. A separate short-lived session answers from that snapshot, with read-only permissions, no flow skills, and no place in the run's monitor or epic.

The answer appears in the transcript when it is ready. The flow keeps its sessions, queued messages and context untouched, so asking is safe while an agent is thinking or while several agents are working at once.

/btw needs an active flow and a question. With no read-only backend available it reports an error rather than starting a new flow or falling back to a write-enabled agent. Observations are bounded and treated as untrusted data: the side agent is told not to follow instructions found in the flow's output.

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Released under the Apache-2.0 licence.