/btw
Lightweight Q&A about the project — answer from context and return, no routing, no state change.
$ npx -y skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this command gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/btw
Context preview
What this command does when you run it.
Lightweight Q&A about the project — answer from context and return, no routing, no state change.
Command definition
btw.mddescription: Lightweight Q&A about the project — answer from context and return, no routing, no state change. argument-hint: "<question>"
{{CMD:btw}} — quick Q&A
The one exception to the slash-command pipeline. Answer the question and return. No skill is routed to, no agent dispatched, no file written. Always safe to invoke.
Flow
1. Read `{{PROJECT_DIR}}/.codearbiter/` docs as needed to answer accurately — `CONTEXT.md`, `tech-stack.md`, `coding-standards.md`, `security-controls.md`, `decisions/`, `specs/`, `plans/`. 2. Answer directly and conversationally — not a formatted report. 3. If the answer is not in context, say so plainly. Never guess.
Hard gate
Read-only. MUST NOT write or modify any file, route to a skill, dispatch an agent, run tests, or resolve a `[CONFIRM-NN]`. If the question is really a request to build or fix something, say so and point to `{{CMD:feature}}` or `{{CMD:fix}}` — do not start implementation from `{{CMD:btw}}`.
When you can't trust yourself with your code base, trust Arbiter.
Repo: arbiterForge/codeArbiter
Other commands on codearbiter.
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Open command - /adr-status
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Open command - /adr
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Open command - /arbiter
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Open command - /audit
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Open command - /checkpoint
Periodic multi-reviewer sweep of the whole codebase — surfaces a triaged checkpoint report.
Open command