[FEATURE] Claude Desktop: show sub-agent activity (tool calls, commands, results) in the task panel and session history

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Problem Statement

When Claude Desktop hands work to sub-agents, I have no way to check what they actually did: which commands ran, which files they read or changed, what came back, and what they finally answered. The panel shows a one-line summary while they run and "No output captured." once they finish (that fallback is filed separately as #88621). Reopening the session from history shows the same.

The information is already saved on disk, as a full transcript per sub-agent (~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<session>/subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl). The app just does not show it. For work where I have to answer for every action (infrastructure, production access) I need that record in the app, without digging through JSON files by hand.

Proposed Solution

Show the sub-agent's transcript in its task panel entry: the tool calls in order (tool name plus the command, file path or prompt), each result collapsible, and the final answer. Keep it available when the session is reopened from history. Concretely, for agent-type tasks (local_agent, local_workflow, remote_agent, in_process_teammate):

1. Render the transcript from the task output file / subagents JSONL. Reusing the existing local_bash output-file reader (tail + size cap) would already be a big step.
2. In history, read the durable subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl (not only the tmp .output), honouring cleanupPeriodDays.
3. An "Open transcript file" action (reveal in Finder / open path) as a fallback when rendering is not possible.

Related: #76669 (live tail of subagent output), #5974 (closed not-planned, TUI), #77510 (resumed-agent display bug), and the bug #88621.

Alternative Solutions

• Minimal: show a link / path to the transcript file instead of "No output captured."
• Export action: "Copy sub-agent activity as Markdown" (tool calls + commands) for pasting into tickets.

Priority

High - Significant impact on productivity

Feature Category

Other

Use Case Example

Operator delegates "audit IAM roles in account X" to 3 sub-agents, then must answer "which read-only AWS CLI commands were run, against which account, and what came back?" Today that takes:

jq -r 'select(.type=="assistant")|.message.content[]?|select(.type=="tool_use")|"\(.name)\t\(.input.command//.input.file_path//"")"' \
  ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<session>/subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl

With this feature it is one click in the task panel, live and from history.