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Published 3 months ago • verified publisher icon anomalyco

Can't chat with the subagent session anymore v1.1.1

Open anjanpoonacha opened this issue 3 months ago • 6 comments

Question

I heavily use the multi agents capabilities. During the time of execution. I tend to have conversation with the subagents session instead of the primary agent session. In order to save the session from being bloated, and sometimes queue the messages in the subagent session when the agents go sideways. It was very handy.

Is it a bug that we don't see the chat in subagents?

anjanpoonacha avatar Jan 05 '26 05:01 anjanpoonacha

This was intentional, tho note that even before it got removed, you werent actually talking to subagent it was still primary agent just w/ the context of subagent

rekram1-node avatar Jan 05 '26 05:01 rekram1-node

oh oh!! I slightly altered the question to reflect what I really meant. Sad to see the powerful feature sunset!!

anjanpoonacha avatar Jan 05 '26 06:01 anjanpoonacha

This was a critical part of my workflow as well. Being able to send messages to subagent sessions allowed me to course-correct when needed and significantly improved subagent performance. Would love to see this restored.

Re: routing to the primary agent - that doesn't quite match my experience. When I sent messages while viewing a subagent (e.g., telling it to use gh CLI instead of webfetch for investigating source code), the subagent changed its behavior directly. Could be wrong, but it felt like direct communication. Either way, the functionality was valuable for steering subagents.

Edit: did some digging and you're technically correct that the TUI agent config was used, not the subagent's. But messages did go to the child session and became part of its context, which influenced subsequent behavior. That's what made it useful. Hope it can come back in some form.

bobab12 avatar Jan 05 '26 09:01 bobab12

I used this constantly too, It was very useful.

OmarGoubail avatar Jan 05 '26 13:01 OmarGoubail

This feature was exactly the reason I switched from Claude Code to OpenCode. The ability to interact with subagent sessions and course-correct them mid-execution was a game-changer for my workflow. Really disappointing to see it removed — might as well switch back to Claude Code now.

vladislavlozhkin avatar Jan 05 '26 21:01 vladislavlozhkin

In fact, I stopped using the Opencode Desktop because this specific feature was removed. I had created a question for that too! https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/6191

anjanpoonacha avatar Jan 06 '26 09:01 anjanpoonacha