finally ported my fav Claude Code feature into Pi: `/subtask`
a subtask is a fork of your current conversation, it inherits everything you've discussed, works in the background, and sends only its final answer back into the conversation that spawned it. Less context pollution/bloating and you can continue the main conversation as subtasks are running.
here's what's packed into the Pi extension:
- a live panel under the prompt: ↑↓ to select, enter to watch a fork work in real time, x to stop or dismiss it
- steer a running fork mid-task, or resume a finished one without losing its progress
- the model can spawn subtasks on its own and keep working while it waits for the result
- forks reuse the parent's prompt cache, so they're cheaper than briefing a subagent
- every fork's transcript is a real pi session: reopen it any time with `pi --session `