Always show subagents in the left sidebar

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 23, 2026 by thisIsLoading Closed Apr 23, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

Codex App on Mac

What feature would you like to see?

currently to see the output of a subagent i have to expand the background agents at the bottom and click on "Show" to see the output. then it shows up in the sidebar. But only that particular agent.

what i'd like to have is for the subagents to always show up in that sidebar. i like the expander there, so, it is fine to have it collapsed initially, but if i could just directly see that there are subagents (the little expander shows up) and i click on it and see all running subagents, that would really be a better UX.

And to be honest, if i could choose, you could totally get rid of the "background agents box" at the bottom then. But if you wanna keep that, its fine, its not that it is really bothering me.

<img width="1529" height="600" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d16449fe-20df-41c2-b2a3-8af3e0fd0115" />

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #18252

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thisIsLoading · 4 months ago

ah, so its obviously supposed to do that already and this seems like a dupe to an already reported bug. so i close this one and hope for the bugfix.