[Improvement] The ability to guide subagents on the right path

Currently, if a subagent stops at a request for permission to make edits and you press Esc, or any other case where you need to pause a subagent, it completely stops and execution proceeds to the main agent.
That means it's impossible to guide the subagent on the right path.

It would be good if there was an ability to write to the subagent and have it continue working. And if it's necessary to completely interrupt it, then enter for example a command /finish, /back or something similar.

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

Cancelling causes context loss #2324: Cancelling causes context loss - Describes similar interruption behavior where cancelling operations causes loss of context and the ability to continue guidance
Esc not working on agent hangs #1734: Esc not working on agent hangs - Reports that ESC interruption doesn't work properly when agents hang, similar to your permission request scenario
Custom commands with agents should(?) run in isolated sessions #2315: Custom commands with agents should(?) run in isolated sessions - Discusses agent execution context and control issues
Subagents often getting stuck into tool usage loops #2052: Subagents often getting stuck into tool usage loops - Related to subagent control and getting stuck in operations

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case of wanting to guide subagents that stop at permission requests.

makes sense

Any progress on it. Project migrated to new TUI, implemented web client and other stuff. But basic things ignored. Subagents absolutely useless without fixing this issue. When user wants to change something (direct subagent in the right path) all flow just stops. And you just open ClaudeCode and it works as expected. Without web client and super feature - TUI, of course ))

some improvements to subagents should ship this week

@rekram1-node

@rekram1-node any luck with this? flexible subagent handling (introspection, context injection, interruption, resuming) would be a killer feature for opencode

To stay organized issues are automatically closed after 90 days of no activity. If the issue is still relevant please open a new one.

Claude just released feature to communicate with subagents. And much more — Agent Team mode, when team lead can spawn subagents and delegate tasks. You can send follow up messages to team lead, and he will decide which subagent can handle it.

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