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feat(ui-tui): render Agent/Task (subagent) as a Task card #423

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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions ui-tui/src/components/Message.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -161,6 +161,21 @@ export function Message({ entry }: { entry: TranscriptEntry }): React.ReactEleme
if (entry.todos) {
return <TodoList todos={entry.todos} />
}
// Agent/Task (subagent spawn) renders as a Task card.
if (entry.agent) {
const a = entry.agent
const label = a.name ? `${a.description} (@${a.name})` : a.description
return (
<Text>
<Text color={theme.suggestion}>⏺ </Text>
<Text bold>Task</Text>
<Text color={theme.dim}>(</Text>
<Text color={theme.suggestion}>{label}</Text>
<Text color={theme.dim}>)</Text>
{a.subagentType ? <Text color={theme.dim}>{` · ${a.subagentType}`}</Text> : null}
</Text>
)
}
// Collapsed summary of several same-kind calls (e.g. "Read 4 files").
if (entry.count && entry.count > 1) {
const noun = TOOL_VERB[entry.toolName ?? '']?.noun || 'files'
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions ui-tui/src/sdkMessageAdapter.ts
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Expand Up @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ export interface TranscriptEntry {
todos?: TodoItem[]
/** /context entries: the context-window usage breakdown to visualize. */
contextData?: ContextData
/** Agent/Task tool calls: the spawned subagent's task + type. */
agent?: { description: string; subagentType: string; name: string }
/** banner only: the session info snapshot, captured once at init. */
bannerData?: { model: string; mode: string; tools: number; cwd?: string }
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -171,6 +173,22 @@ export function messageToEntries(msg: ServerMessage): TranscriptEntry[] {
string,
unknown
>
// Agent/Task (subagent spawn) renders as a Task card.
if (toolName === 'Agent' || toolName === 'Task') {
out.push({
id: nextId(),
kind: 'tool',
text: '',
toolName,
agent: {
description: String(tinput['description'] ?? ''),
subagentType: String(tinput['subagent_type'] ?? ''),
name: String(tinput['name'] ?? ''),
},
toolUseId: String((block as { id?: string }).id ?? ''),
})
continue
}
// TodoWrite renders as a checklist, not a generic tool call.
if (toolName === 'TodoWrite' && Array.isArray(tinput['todos'])) {
out.push({
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