Forked Subagents Using request_user_input

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 2, 2026 by am-will Closed Mar 4, 2026

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

0.107

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Linux Ubuntu

What issue are you seeing?

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I asked the parent agent to launch a few subagents to do codebase reasearch, and notice they were taking a while. When I went to investigate, it seems they had launched their own subagents (I have max_depth = 2), and were stuck on a request_user_input call 2 layers deep.

Would propose finding a way to make default_mode_request_user_input = false for all subagents when they are called.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Might not be consistent but I told it to fork my session with 3 subagents to explore the codebase for opportunities to add new features.

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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