SendMessage tool unavailable without agent teams feature, breaking agent resume
Bug
The SendMessage tool (used to resume/continue a previously spawned subagent) is now gated behind the "agent teams" feature. This is a regression — SendMessage is required for basic agent communication, not just for multi-agent team coordination.
Impact
Without SendMessage, there is no way to continue a conversation with a previously spawned agent. The Agent tool's result text still instructs users to "use SendMessage with to: '<agentId>' to continue this agent," but the tool is not available.
Example: You spawn an agent and ask it "what is 1+1?" — it answers "2." You then want to follow up with "how hard was that question to answer on a scale of 1-10?" — you can't, because SendMessage is unavailable. Spawning a new agent loses all prior context.
Repro
- Use an account without access to the "agent teams" feature
- Spawn an agent via the
Agenttool — note the returnedagentId - Try to find
SendMessageviaToolSearch— it does not appear in primary or deferred tools - Attempt to resume the agent — fails, spawns a new agent with no history
Expected
SendMessage should be available to all users as a core tool for resuming subagents, independent of the agent teams feature gate.
Actual
SendMessage is only available when agent teams is enabled. Users without the feature cannot resume any subagent, despite the system instructing them to do so.
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