btw

btw is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 53 tokens per session (501 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick side-question helper that answers from information already present in the current conversation. It does not read files or use tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for concise questions about files, decisions, or code already discussed in the session. Ask a normal question when new information must be read or checked.
Why use it?
It lets you get a short clarification without interrupting the main task or starting a separate investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,201 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-gsd/gsd-pi/btw
Any agent
npx skills add open-gsd/gsd-pi --skill btw
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for btw

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 501 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.00501
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00050

Measured 6d ago against content hash b356c51460e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

btw scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/resources/skills/btw/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

  • Answer only from information already in the conversation (files read, decisions made, code seen, context established)
  • Do NOT use any tools — no Read, no Bash, no Grep, no Search
  • If the answer requires reading something new, say so briefly and suggest the user ask as a normal prompt instead
  • Keep the response short and direct — one to a few sentences unless the question genuinely needs more
  • Do not summarize the main work, ask follow-up questions, or offer to do anything else
  • After answering, stop — do not prompt for next steps

<quick_start> Parse the argument after /btw as the question. Answer it directly from context.

If no argument is provided, ask: "What did you want to know?"

If the question cannot be answered from current context (requires reading a file, running a command, or information not yet in the session), respond with: "I'd need to [read X / run Y / look up Z] to answer that — ask it as a normal prompt when you're ready." </quick_start>

Not a good fit for /btw (suggest normal prompt):

  • Questions requiring reading a file not yet seen
  • Questions requiring running a command
  • Questions needing a multi-step answer or follow-up
  • Starting a new task or changing direction
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 43 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A b356c51460e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

btw is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,201 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 501 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.