Uncontrolled Agent and Chat Creation in Multi-Agent Mode
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 25, 2026 by igor-popryadukhin Closed Jan 25, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.89.0
What subscription do you have?
API
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.2-codex
What platform is your computer?
Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Windows (WSL)
What issue are you seeing?
When using multi-agent mode, the system creates an excessive number of agents that fully consume the virtual machine’s resources. This results in application crashes and renders the WSL environment unusable. Additionally, dozens of automatically generated chats appear in the history.
wsl
Разрушительный сбой
Код ошибки: Wsl/Service/E_UNEXPECTED
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019bf667-3c1e-7092
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
Thanks for the report.
The next version adds a hard upper limit on the number of subagents and disallows sub-subagents.
Note that this feature is still under active development and is not ready for general usage. Rough edges like this should be expected at this stage. But we appreciate the early feedback!
Thank you very much, I didn’t expect such a quick response.