google-gemini / google-gemini/gemini-cli

Allow for local agents to be backgroundable

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Description

### What would you like to be added?

Users should be able send local subagents to the background with Ctrl+B.

### Why is this needed?

Frequently gemini-cli uses subagents for exploration or other non-blocking tasks like building and linting part of the codebase.

### Additional context

As part of remote agents we have added PRs that would make this feature significantly easier to add with a shared injection and executionLifecycle class.
See https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/18197

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