Agent Threads & Side Chats in AI
From the OpenAI Codex cheat sheet · Agents & Background Work · verified Jul 2026
Agent Threads & Side Chats
Inspect delegated work without losing the main conversation.
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/agent
/subagents
/side Check whether this plan has an obvious risk
/btw Explain the last command🤖 /agent and /subagents open the same thread picker
💡 /side preserves the main transcript
⚡ /btw is an alias for /side
📌 Side chats are temporary focused detours
commandsagentssubagentsside-chat
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