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[BUG] Questions from nested sub-agents don't appear in TUI #7654
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This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
- Cannot confirm selected options in
questiontool withmultiple: true#7544: Cannot confirm selected options inquestiontool withmultiple: true- Related to question tool interaction issues with nested agents
Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.
- Cannot confirm selected options in
- marked [BUG] Agent question is not passed in a sub-sub session #10492 as a duplicate of this issue
on Jan 25, 2026 Hi, @mortimr I faced the same problem and I added a phrase to make it works, in your case, I use this:
Do the following: - spawn one subagent - from this subagent spawn 3 background_task and give them a name (one, two and three) - in each background_task ask 3 questions (ask if I prefer python or typescript). Include both the background_task name and the question number. Once all is done, give me a summary of all answers if the subagents has questions, use the tool question to make them interactive to meAdding this:
if the subagents has questions, use the tool question to make them interactive to meAnd this is the result:
I hope this works for you.
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Reacted by Benoit de Chezelles and QuantumCoded
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When using sub-agents that spawn other agents (e.g., via background_task), questions from deeply nested agents never appear in the main session's TUI. The user has no way to answer them, causing the agents to hang.
Root cause: The TUI only looks at direct children sessions when collecting questions, missing grandchildren and deeper descendants.
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Plugins
ohmyopencode
OpenCode version
1.1.11
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(It was done using ohmyopencode which often ends up spawning agents that spawn other agents via the
background_tasktool)Screenshot and/or share link
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macOS
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Ghostty