Agents view: needs tools to oversee a large number of background agents

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Feature request: better ways to oversee a large number of background agents

claude agents (the fleet/agents view) is genuinely useful, but it doesn't scale past a
handful of agents. Once you have 15-20+ background agents running/finished across
projects, the flat 3-category layout (Needs input / Working / Completed) becomes hard to
manage and you lose control over what's actually still relevant.

Concretely, what's missing:

  • No way to archive/dismiss agents. Finished agents you've already acted on stay in

"Completed" forever with no way to clear them out, so the list only grows and the
signal-to-noise ratio gets worse over time.

  • No manual categorization/tagging. All 3 categories are derived purely from internal

state (blocked/working/done) — there's no way for the user to reclassify an agent (e.g.
"park this", "keep an eye on this") independent of its actual run state.

  • No bulk actions — no way to archive/dismiss multiple completed agents at once.
  • No filter/search across agent name or detail text once the list gets long.

Suggested improvement: add a 4th, user-controlled category (e.g. "Archived") that agents
can be moved into manually regardless of their real state, plus a way to bulk-clear
completed agents once you're done with them. This would let heavy background-agent users
keep the view focused on what still needs attention instead of scrolling through
everything that ever ran.

Happy to share more detail on the specific workflow that hit this if useful.

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