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Sub-agents spawned by background agents appear in UI without user notification

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Descrizione

### Describe the bug

When a background general-purpose agent spawns a child agent,
the child appears in the /tasks panel silently — no chat message,
no explanation of why it was started or what it does.

### Affected version

_No response_

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Launch a general-purpose agent in background mode with a complex task
2. The agent internally spawns a sub-agent (e.g. to split work)
3. The sub-agent appears in /tasks panel with a different name/description
4. User has no idea who started it or why

## Actual behavior
Silent appearance in /tasks. User can only discover it via /tasks panel.

### Expected behavior

Any agent launched (directly or by another agent) should post a notification in the chat explaining what it is and who started it.

### Additional context

The parent agent also hung for 18+ minutes (7 tool_calls) with no
timeout or warning, then its child continued working after the parent
was killed.

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Direzione di ricerca

Use the reproduction steps to trace how background agents and their child agents are registered for the /tasks panel, then identify the existing chat-notification entry point. Done means a child agent's appearance produces a chat notification that explains what it does and identifies its parent, with coverage for the background-agent case.

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Valutazione

Stack tecnologico
shell
Ambito
ai, cli
Tipo di issue
Bug
Difficoltà
3/5
Tempo stimato
1-2 giorni
Stato di attività
Tranquilla
Chiarezza
Abbastanza chiara
Idoneità per principianti
50/100

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