SubAgent Panel with per-agent status and activity
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Description
### Feature summary
Add SubAgent Panel with per-agent status and activity
### What problem are you trying to solve?
As we create more complex agents which can spawn many subagents in parallel it's important to be able to visualise these agents, their statuses and what they are doing.
Harnesses such as Codex and OpenCode provide this type of view but it's lacking from the Copilot App which makes it hard to understand what subagents are running.
### Proposed solution
Add a sub-agents view in the right hand panel which lists all sub-agents from the session. The list should be split into active and completed sub agents. Each sub agent should show the name and their current status. Clicking on a sub agent brings up a live read-only window of their conversation with the calling agent.
### Workflow impact
This would improve the complex multi-agent workflows for all users. It would mean we can build custom "supervisor" workflows while still allowing a human to visualise what is happening in the session. It would mean users no longer need to jump ship to OpenCode or similar for these complex use cases
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue, so begin by locating the right-hand panel and the session's sub-agent data flow. Done means a sub-agents view lists active and completed agents with names and statuses, and opens a live read-only conversation for each selected agent.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100