5 practical scenarios where questions save time, tokens, and sanity — My takes as a practitioner who almost missed this feature entirely.

What Claude Code /btw Actually Does The /btw command in Claude Code lets you ask a side question without adding anything to the conversation history. You type /btw followed by your question, get an answer in a dismissible overlay, and the main conversation continues as if nothing happened.

That sounds simple. It is. But simple is not obvious, and the implications only clicked after I started using it daily.