Show and inspect subagents in Codex Remote
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
Android ChatGPT app
What feature would you like to see?
Feature request: Show and inspect subagents in Codex Remote
When using Codex Remote from the ChatGPT mobile app, I would like to see the subagents spawned by the main Codex agent.
Currently, if the main agent delegates work to multiple subagents, Remote mostly shows the parent conversation. This makes it difficult to understand what is actually happening while a complex task is running.
I would like Remote to show a subagent tree/list, for example:
Main agent
├── Subagent 1 — Reading/reviewing — Running
├── Subagent 2 — Implementation — Running
└── Subagent 3 — Tests — Completed
Each subagent should be tappable.
When I tap a subagent, I would like to see:
- what task it was assigned;
- whether it is running, waiting, completed, or failed;
- what it is currently working on;
- recent activity/tool calls;
- files or worktree/branch it is working in;
- its final result/report when completed.
Ideally, Remote should update this live without requiring me to return to the desktop Codex app.
This becomes especially important when Codex is acting as an orchestrator and delegates most of a large coding task to several subagents. From my phone I want to understand not only what the parent agent is doing, but what the entire agent team is doing.
A compact expandable "Subagents" section inside the Remote task would solve this very well.
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Research direction
Start by locating the Android ChatGPT app's Codex Remote task view and the data or events it receives for delegated work. Define the subagent tree, tappable inspection view, live status updates, activity, worktree details, and final report, then verify that parent and subagent activity are visible from the mobile app without returning to desktop Codex.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100