Feature request: custom emoji / avatars for session names (multi-agent team workflows)
Problem
I run a multi-agent team in Claude Code — a chief-of-staff "CEO" agent plus content / video / ads / SEO / support / knowledge subagents. Each agent has its own pixel-bot avatar on our internal dashboard, so one glance tells me which "employee" I'm looking at:
But in the session list, every session looks identical. The only way to mark "which agent / which department does this session belong to" is prefixing the title with a generic Unicode emoji like 🤖 — with 10+ sessions a day across different agents, they all blur together.
Request
Support custom emoji / avatars for session titles (or a dedicated session-icon field) — the way Slack and Discord support workspace custom emoji. Even a minimal version would be great:
- Upload a set of small PNGs/GIFs once (workspace- or user-level)
- Reference them in session names like
:my-bot: - Bonus: let a subagent definition declare its avatar, so sessions/spawns of that agent show it automatically
Why it matters
Multi-agent workflows are becoming the default way power users run Claude Code. When each agent has a visual identity, the session list turns into a team roster — you see at a glance which employee each conversation belongs to.
We already made 47 custom bot avatars for our agents and open-sourced them (MIT), ready for anyone to test with: https://github.com/daojie-sudo/daojie-bot-emoji
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Today the only places these can live are Slack/Discord custom emoji and docs — there is nowhere inside Claude to use them. Happy to share more details about our setup!