I’ve currently an approach to analyze a structured problem that uses a Skills.md that invokes a series of sub-agents. While that approach works great on the chat (context isolated within the sub-agents which are launched in parallel), it fails to extend to the CLI. The orchestrator ends up reading t…

@Tharun_S Please give it another try! [Screenshot 2026-03-02 at 18.33.57]

Hey @Tharun_S ! The orchestrator reads the individual sub-agents and executes them in series within the same context. Could you clarify what you’re seeing here? Specifically: Are no subagents being spun up at all (i.e., the orchestrator is inlining the work instead of dispatching via the Task t…

Hey @Colin ! Appreciate the response! To your question, the subagents aren’t being launched at all (serialized instead). The specific issue seems to be a lack of a Task tool on CLI. A reproducer to the issue is included below to highlight this issue: Agent-CLI.zip (4.1 KB) The output on my end …

Hey @Tharun_S Turns out you were right here and it’s working for me because I have a dev-like account. I’ve flagged this to the team.

Hey @Colin ! Thank you for taking a look at this. Appreciate it!

Hi @Colin , I can confirm that the Task tool is available to Cursor now and I’m able to use sub-agents on CLI. Thank you so much for your help in enabling this! ~ Tharun

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