Watch and steer subagents

While DataMind Oda works on a task, it can hand parts of the work to helper agents, called subagents. The Activity tab of the side panel lists the chat's direct subagents, one row each: watch the work there, send a running subagent your guidance, or stop a turn that is going the wrong way. What subagents are and how they appear in a chat is on Subagents.

Watch a subagent's work

• The Activity tab of the side panel lists the chat's direct subagents, one row each.
• A row's title is the subagent's label, or its summary when it has none.
• The row carries the subagent's token total, in short form: 500 tok, 18.2K tok or 2.4M tok. With no tokens recorded, the row shows no total.
• The row's detail shows the subagent's total active duration, as Total active duration: {duration}.
• While the subagent runs, its row updates once a second; a settled row stays fixed.

Read a row's state

• When a subagent cannot go on without you, its row is marked Needs you, or names what it waits for: Approval, Question or Plan review.
• A small state dot reads ongoing while the subagent runs, done once its work has finished, and idle otherwise.
• When the subagent settles, its row reads Done, Failed or Stopped: Done when the work finished, Failed when the last turn ended in an error, and Stopped for any other ending, such as a stop or an interruption.

Steer, stop or review a subagent

Open the Activity tab of the side panel and find the subagent's row.

• Press Steer to send a running subagent your own guidance while it works.
• Press Stop to end a subagent's current turn, the same way stopping a chat ends its turn (Chat with Oda).
• Press Review when the row is marked Needs you, to open the subagent and deal with what it needs.
• Steer and Stop appear only for a subagent that can be continued and is running now. A running one-shot subagent (one that takes no follow-ups) has no Stop, and a settled row offers neither.

Questions, answered

Where do I see the subagents of this chat?

The Activity tab of the side panel lists the chat's direct subagents, one row each. A row's title is the subagent's label, or its summary when it has none.

What do the token numbers on a subagent's row mean?

They are the total tokens the subagent has used so far, in short form: 500 tok, 18.2K tok or 2.4M tok. With no tokens recorded, the row shows no total.

Why do the numbers on a running row keep changing?

The row updates once a second while the subagent runs. When the subagent settles, the row stays fixed.

What does Total active duration mean?

The total time the subagent has been active. The row's detail reads Total active duration: {duration}.

What does Needs you mean on a subagent's row?

The subagent cannot go on without you. The row is marked Needs you, or names what it waits for: Approval, Question or Plan review. Press Review to open it and deal with what it needs.

Why does a subagent's row read Stopped?

Stopped means the last turn ended without finishing and without an error, for example after a stop or an interruption.

What does the dot beside a subagent's row show?

It reads ongoing while the subagent runs, done once its work has finished, and idle otherwise.

Why does a subagent's row show no Steer or Stop?

Steer and Stop appear only for a subagent that can be continued and is running now. A running one-shot subagent has no Stop, and a settled row offers neither.

What does Steer send?

It sends your own guidance to a subagent that can be continued, while it is running.

What does Review open?

The subagent that waits for you, so you can deal with what it needs: an approval, a question or a plan review.

What happens when I stop a subagent?

Stop ends the subagent's current turn, the same way stopping a chat ends its turn (Chat with Oda).