diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/config/managed_features.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/config/managed_features.rs
index 7c04301444..1e3fe109db 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/config/managed_features.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/config/managed_features.rs
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ pub(super) fn project_overrides_legacy_subagent_opt_out(layers: &ConfigLayerStac
     let mut project_enabled = false;
     for layer in layers.layers_high_to_low() {
         if let Some(features) = layer.config.get("features").and_then(toml::Value::as_table)
-            && features
-                .keys()
-                .any(|key| feature_for_key(key) == Some(Feature::Collab))
+            && features.iter().any(|(key, enabled)| {
+                enabled.as_bool() == Some(false) && feature_for_key(key) == Some(Feature::Collab)
+            })
         {
             return project_enabled;
         }
diff --git a/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/model_runtime_selectors.rs b/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/model_runtime_selectors.rs
index d25278e1f7..8034cde9be 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/model_runtime_selectors.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/model_runtime_selectors.rs
@@ -447,6 +447,36 @@ async fn migrating_only_the_project_agent_setting_preserves_v1_tools() -> Result
             Some("multi_agent_v1"),
         ),
         (migrated, config(), None, Some("multi_agent_v1")),
+        (
+            "[features]\nmulti_agent = true",
+            config().cli_overrides(vec![("features.collab".to_string(), true.into())]),
+            None,
+            Some("multi_agent_v1"),
+        ),
+        (
+            migrated,
+            config().cli_overrides(vec![("features.collab".to_string(), true.into())]),
+            None,
+            Some("multi_agent_v1"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "[agents]\nenabled = true\n[features]\ncollab = true",
+            config(),
+            None,
+            Some("multi_agent_v1"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "[agents]\nenabled = true\n[features]\ncollab = false",
+            config(),
+            None,
+            None,
+        ),
+        (
+            migrated,
+            config().cli_overrides(vec![("features.collab".to_string(), false.into())]),
+            None,
+            None,
+        ),
         (
             migrated,
             config(),