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How are you managing the use of explicitly spawned subagents?

OpenAI Developer Community May 21, 2026
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I agree, this is a pain point that needs to be managed on top of Codex because subagents can currently get lost. We recently had a topic about this where it was not even clear whether we were looking at a bug or something else entirely: Sub Agent Limit Bug - codex plugin in vs code Codex > At some point the session responded with a subagent limit reduction. Could only spawn 2 instead of the normal 6 subagents limit. I’ve waited for ~12 hours and then tried again. Still only 2 subagents. Then I restarted vs code and opened a new session and back to 6. With Codex I prefer to spawn subagents for distinct, one-shot tasks only and then have the orchestrator monitor the status until the agent is done and can be despawned.

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