AI Productivity

Subagent History for Claude Code and Codex

A count beside the delegation badge opens a searchable list of the children your agent spawned; picking one shows its conversation, tool calls and results. Finished children stay in the list, and Follow log streams one that is still running.

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Why You Need This

How this feature boosts your daily productivity

Delegation used to be a spinner and a summary. A child agent would spin up, do real work — read files, run commands, reach a conclusion — and then disappear, leaving you with whatever the parent chose to tell you about it. When the parent's summary was wrong or thin, there was nothing to check it against. Keeping finished children in the list turns a delegation into something you can read after the fact: the actual conversation, the actual tool calls, the actual results. Follow log streams a running child, Earlier logs pages back, Latest jumps to the end, and Copy follow-up for parent hands you a prompt to paste back into the parent conversation so acting on what you found does not mean retyping it. The panel is deliberately read-only — 1DevTool never starts, writes to, or steers a native child, because a subagent that two things are driving is a subagent whose transcript no longer explains its own behaviour.

How It Works

Get started in 4 simple steps

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Find the count beside the delegation badge

When Claude Code or Codex spawns children, a count appears next to the delegation badge on that terminal.

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Open the searchable list

The list holds every subagent from that run, finished ones included, so a delegation is still readable after its spinner has gone.

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Pick one and read it

Selecting a subagent shows its conversation, its tool calls and its results — what it actually did, not the parent’s summary of it.

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Follow a running child

Follow log streams a child that is still working, Earlier logs pages back through a long run, and Latest jumps to the end.

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Carry a finding back

Copy ID and Copy follow-up for parent hand you a prompt to paste into the parent conversation. The panel never writes to or steers a child.

Without 1DevTool

The manual way vs. the 1DevTool way

The Hard Way

# the agent spawns four children
# spinners appear, then vanish
# you get the parent's one-line summary
# summary looks thin
# no way to see what the child actually did
# take its word for it

The 1DevTool Way

A count beside the delegation badge
Searchable list -- finished children included
Open one: its conversation, tool calls, results
Follow log / Earlier logs / Latest
Copy follow-up for parent

Key Capabilities

Everything included with Subagent History for Claude Code and Codex

Open a searchable list of the children an agent spawned
Read a finished delegation instead of losing it with the spinner
See each subagent’s conversation, tool calls and results
Stream a running child with Follow log
Page back through a long run with Earlier logs, or jump to Latest
Copy a subagent ID for reference
Copy a ready-made follow-up prompt for the parent conversation
Stay read-only — nothing here starts, writes to or steers a child

Why It Matters

The productivity impact of having ai productivity built into your workspace

Delegations Stop Disappearing

A finished child stays in the list, so the record of what it decided outlives the spinner that was showing it.

You Can Check The Parent’s Summary

Reading the child’s own conversation, tool calls and results is how you find out the summary was thin — or wrong.

Long Runs Stay Navigable

Follow log, Earlier logs and Latest make a busy delegation something you can move through rather than scroll blindly.

Acting On It Is One Copy

Copy follow-up for parent turns something you spotted in a child into a prompt for the parent, without retyping it.

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