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The TUI supports long-running turns and agent threads, but quick side questions have required interrupting the main flow or manually forking/navigating threads. This PR adds a guarded /side flow so users can ask brief side-conversation questions in an ephemeral fork while keeping the primary thread focused. This also helps address the feature request in #18125.

The implementation creates one side conversation at a time, lets /side open either an empty side thread or immediately submit /side <question>, and returns to the parent with Esc or Ctrl+C. Side conversations get hidden developer guardrails that treat inherited history as reference-only and steer the model away from workspace mutations unless explicitly requested in the side conversation.

The TUI hides most slash commands while side mode is active, leaving only /copy, /diff, /mention, and /status available there.

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@etraut-openai etraut-openai changed the title Add ephemeral side conversations Add guarded /side conversations Apr 16, 2026
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