Coordinator stuck "Working" while only a background subagent runs — queued input not answered or shown as pending
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### Describe the bug
Sharing something I've hit several times in the CLI (v1.0.70). Upfront: I don't really know how Copilot's orchestration works internally — the log analysis below was done by Copilot itself at my request. The parts I can vouch for first-hand are what I saw in the UI.
• The busy indicator showed "Working", and prompts I typed were pushed to a queue — not answered, and not shown as "(pending)".
• I tried Ctrl+X B (move task to background) and it said "No running sync task to move to background" — so the CLI itself says nothing sync is running, yet it's "Working" and queueing my input.
• In /tasks , the only thing running was one subagent, marked [background] .
• The coordinator became responsive only after I manually cancelled that background subagent in /tasks . Cancelling the sole [background] task is what released my queued prompt — which makes it look like a "background" task was actually blocking the main agent.
### Affected version
v1.0.70
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
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### Expected behavior
if the coordinator is free it should answer immediately; if busy, it should take my prompt as steering and show "(pending)" and act next turn. Actual: queued for minutes with nothing visibly happening except a background subagent.
### Additional context
From Copilot's log analysis (may be imperfect, not internal state): it found two windows where the coordinator went quiet for ~13–17 min with only a background subagent running. In the clearest one, the subagent-completion notification actually fired fine — so this isn't just a "dropped notification"; it looks more like the coordinator being blocked by / kept "Working" behind its own background subagent, and/or how typed input is classified while a subagent runs. It also ruled out sync-blocking (all read_agent calls were wait:false , tasks were mode:background ).
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Rechercherichtung
Beginne damit, das Verhalten in CLI v1.0.70 nachzustellen, und beobachte dabei /tasks, den Working-Indikator, in die Warteschlange eingereihte Eingaben und Ctrl+X B. Vergleiche Sitzungen mit einem alleinigen [background]-Subagenten und untersuche die im Bericht beschriebenen read_agent-Logfenster; abgeschlossen bedeutet, dass der Koordinator antwortet oder Eingaben sichtbar als ausstehend markiert, ohne eine manuelle Stornierung zu erfordern.
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