When is /btw from claude code coming to copilot?

[mflRevan]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

In claude-code, you can ask the agent anytime, regardless of actively running/executing/sleeping or just idle, using his accumulated context to instantly ask a question about something, without bloating/corrupting/writing to the context/session.

Proposed solution

/btw <question prompt> command should allow to ask simple questions as a quick sidecommand, thinking/reasoning supported, without writing to the session

Example prompts or workflows

Example scenario (happening frequently)

• Agent is working on a feature, kicking off a training run
• Sleeping the console output for 600 secs
• I am contemplating whether to stop him because something was misconfigured, and i cant ask him about it either

Should consume only max a half request, since no agentic work can be executed, or use a free/smaller/configurable model by default, ingesting the same context

Additional context

No response

[malvarezcastillo]

isn't /ask literally this?

[Gravifer]

can we alias /ask as well?

[copilot-cli-bot]

This appears to be resolved as of GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.85. Please update to that release or a newer stable version. We're closing this as completed. If it still happens, please comment with your version and reproduction steps.