[BUG] /btw conversation disappears

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

When I use the /btw feature, the /btw conversation disappears after a little while. This is really annoying! Would you want a chat transcript to just delete random lines? Of course not.

Please continue to show /btw conversations as part of the chat log.

What Should Happen?

/btw conversation should stay in the chat logs; it's literally there already, you have to do work to remove it ... just don't do that work

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Get Claude busy with a long-running task (eg. a test run)
2. Ask it something in /btw
3. Ask more questions or just wait a bit
4. Both your prompt and Claude's response disappear

Look, there's nothing about /btw that says "we don't want to remember this"; it's supposed to just be a way to talk to Claude without interrupting it. Please don't delete stuff no one asked to delete.

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

unsure, only started using /btw recently

Claude Code Version

Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context).

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

_No response_