[Feature Request] Display model name in terminal CLI inline agent status view

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.248
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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 28, 2026

Bug Description
Feature request: show the model name in the default inline agent view (terminal CLI)

When a subagent is running, the terminal CLI shows an inline status line like:

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◯ general-purpose Writing local-history.ts for dedupe 6m 11s · ↓ 148.8k tokens

This shows the agent type, task description, elapsed time, and token count — but not which model
the subagent is running on (e.g. haiku vs sonnet vs opus).

When running several subagents in parallel with different models (e.g. delegating cheap/fast
subtasks to haiku and complex ones to sonnet/opus), there's currently no way to tell at a glance
which subagent is using which model in this view.

I found two related settings, but neither covers this:

  • subagentStatusLine shows per-subagent info including the model, but only in the Desktop app's

agent panel — it doesn't render in the terminal CLI at all.

  • /tasks lists running/completed subagents but also doesn't surface the model name in its list or

transcript view.

Request: add the model name to the default terminal inline agent view (and/or to /tasks), so it's
visible without extra commands or Desktop-app-only features.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: tmux
  • Version: 2.1.248
  • Feedback ID: 76b33365-c773-42eb-b35c-27afbdcfe596

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