Agent Hangs when spawning new sub-agents after a long session
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 7, 2026 by Sukhjeet-droid
What version of Codex CLI is running?
OpenAI Codex (v0.142.5)
What subscription do you have?
Max
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5 xhigh
What platform is your computer?
MacOS
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
_No response_
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
Every time the agents spawns new agents after a longish session, it hangs. I have to stop it from spawning new agents. I have seen before that if I press CTRL-C and resume it, the agent is able to spawn new agents,
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f3abc-f234-7e80-8af6-44933a0668ee
What is the expected behavior?
It should be able to spawn new agents without hanging!
Additional information
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