Show a session's subagents as subcards, each with a read-only transcript

A subagent is a second transcript owned by a session, in the same event
model, with no process and no controls. The claude translator routes lines
carrying parent_tool_use_id to a per-subagent translator and transcript
under <session>/subagents/<tool_use_id>; three routes expose the list, a
transcript page and the SSE stream. Echo grows /subagent [n] as the rig.

On the phone a card with subagents ends in a chevron expander, collapsed by
default, opening to outlined subcards styled like dev-updater's components;
a subcard opens SessionScreen in read-only form, addressed through
TranscriptAddress so paging, cache and stream are shared.

Design in SUBAGENTS.md; choices awaiting review in DECISIONS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
package com.example.aiapp
import androidx.activity.compose.BackHandler
import androidx.compose.foundation.background
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.imePadding
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
import androidx.compose.material3.AlertDialog
@@ -34,7 +36,23 @@ import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
* session, spawning one, and settings.
*/
private sealed class Screen {
data object Main : Screen()
/**
* The session list, with a subagent's own transcript over it when [subagent] is set.
*
* A layer on this screen rather than a screen of its own, for the same reason [Session.files]
* is: [SessionListScreen] owns which cards are expanded and what each expansion fetched, kept
* in `remember`, and a subagent is opened from a card's expander. As a sibling `Screen` it was
* disposed and recreated on every return, which lost that state -- an expanded card collapsed
* itself the moment its own subagent's view was closed.
*/
data class Main(val subagent: SubagentTarget? = null) : Screen()
/**
* One subagent's own transcript, read-only. See [SessionScreen]'s `subagent` parameter and
* SUBAGENTS.md's "Phone". Closing it returns to [Main] under it, not to [Session]: a subagent
* is opened from the session list's card rather than from inside the session it belongs to.
*/
data class SubagentTarget(val summary: SessionSummary, val subagent: SubagentSummary)
/**
* One session, with the file explorer over it when [files] is set.
@@ -81,7 +99,7 @@ fun AppRoot(
val context = LocalContext.current
val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
var settings by remember(settingsVersion) { mutableStateOf(loadServerSettings(context)) }
var screen by remember { mutableStateOf<Screen>(Screen.Main) }
var screen by remember { mutableStateOf<Screen>(Screen.Main()) }
// A notification tap this could not follow, and why. Null both before one is asked for and
// after one succeeds, since success is a screen rather than a message.
var failedOpen by remember { mutableStateOf<FailedOpen?>(null) }
@@ -96,7 +114,7 @@ fun AppRoot(
share = shareRequest
// A session already open takes it. Otherwise the list is where the choice is made,
// whatever screen was showing: Spawn and Settings have nowhere to put a file.
if (screen !is Screen.Session) screen = Screen.Main
if (screen !is Screen.Session) screen = Screen.Main()
}
}
@@ -123,7 +141,7 @@ fun AppRoot(
existing = null,
onSaved = { saved ->
settings = saved
screen = Screen.Main
screen = Screen.Main()
},
onBack = null,
)
@@ -136,7 +154,7 @@ fun AppRoot(
// shows, so it always refetches.
val goToMain = {
reloadToken++
screen = Screen.Main
screen = Screen.Main()
}
if (screen !is Screen.Main) {
BackHandler(onBack = goToMain)
@@ -185,6 +203,9 @@ fun AppRoot(
reloadToken = reloadToken,
share = share,
onOpen = { screen = Screen.Session(it) },
onOpenSubagent = { summary, subagent ->
screen = here.copy(subagent = Screen.SubagentTarget(summary, subagent))
},
onSpawn = { screen = Screen.Spawn },
onImported = { imported ->
reloadToken++
@@ -192,6 +213,27 @@ fun AppRoot(
},
onSettings = { screen = Screen.Settings },
)
// Its own back handler is registered after MainScreen's, so it is the one the
// platform asks first while a subagent is open -- the same rule the files
// explorer's handler follows over its session, below.
here.subagent?.let { target ->
BackHandler { screen = here.copy(subagent = null) }
// Its own opaque background: this screen was always the sole content under
// the theme's own Surface before, so it never had to paint one -- stacked over
// the list here, the space between its own cards let the list underneath show
// through without this. The same fix FilesScreen needed over its session.
Box(Modifier.fillMaxSize().background(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.background)) {
key(target.summary.id, target.subagent.id) {
SessionScreen(
settings = current,
summary = target.summary,
onBack = { screen = here.copy(subagent = null) },
onFiles = {},
subagent = target.subagent,
)
}
}
}
}
is Screen.Session ->
// Keyed on the id, because a different session is a different screen rather than this