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[Bug]: Codex child-agent output floods the parent chat #5953

Description

@Umais-Adeed

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Area

apps/server

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start T3 Code and connect the Codex provider.
  2. Open a project thread.
  3. Ask: “Start 3 parallel sub-agents and summarize their results after they finish.”
  4. Observe the parent chat and Agents panel.

Expected behavior

The parent chat should show only the coordinator’s messages. Child-agent
activity should appear separately in the Agents panel with readable names,
statuses, and token usage.

Actual behavior

Child agents’ narration, reasoning, commands, and tool output appear directly
in the parent chat. The conversation becomes flooded, and the Agents panel may
show no agents or only opaque UUIDs.

Impact

Major degradation or frequent failure

Version or commit

Local source build, based on main @ 02f4ce5

Environment

Fedora Linux, Brave browser, Codex provider, T3 Code source build

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Workaround

No reliable workaround. Reducing the number of parallel agents avoids the issue but defeats the multi-agent workflow.

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