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Remote Control: show nested (child) sessions on GitHub Mobile and github.com, like the VS Code Agents window #5316
Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
In the VS Code Agents window, a session can spawn child sessions (nested sessions / sub-chats). The sidebar shows them as a tree under the parent, for example Playground Project → Greeting, and I can open each one and read or steer it.
When I steer the same parent session from GitHub Mobile or the github.com task page via /remote on, the child sessions are not visible at all. I only see the parent conversation. Work that the parent delegated to a child (and the child's questions, permission prompts and results) is invisible from the phone, so I can't follow or steer it until I'm back at the desk.
Proposed solution
Mirror the Agents window's session tree in Remote Control:
List child sessions under their parent (with status: running, waiting for input, done) on GitHub Mobile and github.com.
Open a child session to read its transcript and steer it, with the same Remote Control semantics as the parent.
Surface a child's pending permission prompts or questions in the parent's view (or as a notification), so a blocked child doesn't stall silently.
Example prompts or workflows
In VS Code, ask a session to "create a Greeting chat for this task and hand it the details" (nested session).
Leave the desk, open the session on the phone: the sidebar/tree shows Greeting under the parent with its status.
Tap Greeting, read what it did, answer its question by steering it, go back to the parent.
Additional context
The Agents window already models this (parent/child sessions, "Open in Agents window", nested sessions with separate workspaces as of VS Code 1.144), so the data exists host-side; this is about exposing it through Mission Control / Remote Control clients.
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