AI & Agent WorkflowsSoftware EngineeringReleased 8 Oct 2026
Recover the work of a spawned subagent that finished but never reported, and
tell that case apart from a genuinely wedged agent. Use when: (1) subagents go
idle repeatedly with no findings delivered, (2) `ListAgents` shows them alive
but nothing ever arrives in your inbox, (3) an agent's own final text says the
send tool was unavailable or disabled, (4) you spawned a restricted agent type
(a wrapper that dispatches to a background job runtime) and it reports that
polling status/result is outside its role, (5) you are about to kill and respawn
agents because they "hung". Root cause: an agent type's declared toolset may not
include a messaging tool, so a correct, completed …