Add more computer scientist names to the default set of subagent names
Resolved 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 5, 2026 by leventov Closed Jun 6, 2026
What variant of Codex are you using?
0.137.0
What feature would you like to see?
The current list of default subagent nicknames includes only two computer scientists: Lovelace and Turing. This seems like a huge omission considering what codex is, and that other areas of knowledge (philosophy, math, physics) seem better represented.
Another more practical reason is that when dealing with a lot of subagents, the names repeat quite often because the current list of names is rather small. So, making the list longer and more varied would make it less boring.
Some ideas for the names to include:
Babbage, Hoare, Dijkstra, Kay, Hopper, Knuth, Lamport, Liskov, Hamming, Shannon, McCarthy, Ritchie
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