Allow Task Queue as an option
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Jan 19, 2026 by ahmedelami Closed Jan 21, 2026
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What feature would you like to see?
A few versions ago, the task queue was the default. Now it’s no longer an option. The new behavior is nice when you want to send updated instructions without stopping the agent, but the ability to have a task queue that automatically sends the next queued up prompt/task as the agent finishes was sometimes really handy. It would be nice to have an option between the two.
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Both are supported. If you use the Enter/Return key, the new prompt will be injected in the middle of the turn. If you want to queue the new prompt for the next turn, you can use the Tab key. Does that meet your needs?
We could arguably do a better job documenting this.
hi @etraut-openai ,
nothing techincal here, but that's a badass looking picture. my man.
oh i had no idea! thanks! yeah i tried to look through ? or the / command to find where i could do that. should i go ahead and close this issue then? or update it to say "better doc would help" on this specific issue?
The
?feature was recently changed to display "tab to queue message".I'll also update the user documentation for the CLI to mention this.
It feels like a very unnatural way to do it? Could we change the default behaviour? Having the tab+enter being the "adding to current" task