Use /btw for strategic discussions

One thing that /btw implementation in codex is REALLY different compared to Claude Code is that the side conversation is fully interactive while Claude Code is one-shot -> answer.

What I have found really useful is to use /btw for:

• progress check:
  • /btw what is our progress so far
  • /btw what are all the agents doing
• long horizon task direction discussion
  • when you see the main agent seemingly doing sth wrong but you want to first discuss w/ AI before giving it instruction to change plans, you can use /btw to start a side conversation
  • combine it above w/ status check is very useful for long horizon tasks: you check progress, turns out codex was going in a loop for couple hours, then you ask codex how would it change the process its following
  • finally I normally ask the side conversation: draft me a message I send to main agent to change X then I ctrl c and send that message to main agent

Curiously the side conversation can almost always identify what's strategically wrong: like if the subagent dispatch model doesn't make sense, or the main agent is in some mechanical retry loop w/o fixing the real issue, etc.