SUB AGENT GIMMICK Agent Execution Stalls: Sub-Agent Delegation Causing Performance Degradation

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Aug 15, 2025 by fwends Closed Jan 4, 2026

Bug Description
agents do not report back they stall all the time and i have to stop them and geell the main agent DO NOT use a SUB agent as that task in had is not getting done at all it's massive delays it's time to delte all these STUPID sub agetns they are a waste of time all my code is signficantly wrose since thse updates now that you guys think are better if it jsut did not have these gimmicks and you focused ont he main agent it would be better rather tha tadding this nonsense tht does not owrk

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: iTerm.app
  • Version: 1.0.73
  • Feedback ID: a238cf0c-fdec-4f88-87c7-47ec6204988b

Errors

[{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n    at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:482:14)\n    at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)\n    at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)\n    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)\n    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)\n    at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)","timestamp":"2025-08-12T13:21:25.627Z"},{"error":"Error: 429 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"rate_limit_error\",\"message\":\"This request would exceed your account's rate limit. Please try again later.\"}}\n    at G6.generate (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:936:2513)\n    at lP.makeStatusError (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:953:2101)\n    at lP.makeRequest (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:953:5315)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async LG1.showErrors (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:24594)\n    at async LG1 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:13631)\n    at async dTB (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:24445)\n    at async file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:19427\n    at async oq0 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:5163)\n    at async d11 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1809:19397)","timestamp":"2025-08-13T07:05:22.687Z"},{"error":"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 401\n    at zN (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:685:1077)\n    at IncomingMessage.C0 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:686:9955)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:519:35)\n    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1701:12)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)\n    at LB1.request (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:688:2088)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)\n    at async HH8 (file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2311:470)\n    at async Promise.all (index 0)\n    at async file:///Users/greg/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2297:19497","timestamp":"2025-08-14T10:15:34.492Z"},{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n    at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:482:14)\n    at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)\n    at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)\n    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)\n    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)\n    at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)","timestamp":"2025-08-14T13:22:36.451Z"},{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n    at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:482:14)\n    at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)\n    at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)\n    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)\n    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)\n    at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)","timestamp":"2025-08-14T13:22:38.516Z"},{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n    at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:482:14)\n    at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)\n    at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)\n    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)\n    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)\n    at Pipe.onStream

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