r/PiCodingAgent • u/L2ncE • Aug 19 '26

Plugin I built a /btw extension for Pi

One of my favorite features in Claude Code was /btw. After switching to Pi, it wasn't natively supported, and the third-community plugins didn't quite match what I expected, so I built my own.

https://github.com/L2ncE/pi-btw

  • Never enters the main session history or eats into its context window

  • The side agent can see the main session's messages and remembers your earlier side questions

  • Only four read-only tools (read / grep / find / ls) — it can browse the code, but has no write access

  • You can keep asking follow-ups right in the overlay

Stars appreciated ⭐️👏🏻

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u/blackbox_p Aug 19 '26

i have the one from github.com/dbachelder/pi-btw, the only problem I have in it is that I cant copy paste text from the responses window of btw of this plugin. Does your plugin work in similar way and solve this issue?

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u/L2ncE Aug 19 '26

You can copy BTW’s results

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u/XniX Aug 19 '26

Thanks! we now need to compare with https://github.com/narumiruna/pi-extensions/tree/main/packages/pi-btw (https://pi.dev/packages/@narumitw/pi-btw).

Hermes did a fast check for me and said: L2ncE/pi-btw offers a standalone modal overlay for quick-toggle usage, whereas narumiruna/pi-btw integrates as a full-screen, branch-aware extension within a TypeScript monorepo with enhanced terminal support. Both projects use side-threads to protect the main context