Codex App: Add subagent monitoring to the UI

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 3, 2026 by miraclebakelaser Closed Mar 17, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (miraclebakelaser, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

Right now, the app does not provide any indication that a subagent has been spawned and is being waited on. ATM, users are only shown a "Thinking" indicator when the agent is spawning subagents and waiting on them. It leads to the agent operating over extended periods without providing feedback to the user.

Minimal implementation request: The thread should display the same subagent events as the CLI.
• Agent spawned
• Waiting for agents
• Wait complete
• Agent closed

Nice to have: A subagent pane that displays the status of each spawned agent. Users should be able to monitor each subagent's progress (commands run, edits made, thought summaries).

Additional information

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2 Comments

ignatremizov · 6 months ago

I would propose something like https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9902

miraclebakelaser contributor · 5 months ago

@etraut-openai I appreciate the team's work on this! Closing this.