Hard-coded 'scout' references reached the model even when the scout
agent was disabled via task.disabledAgents or absent from the session
spawn list. Gate every such reference on scout actually being spawnable:
the task tool description, the delegation gates, the plan-mode and
workflowz notices, the glob/grep/ast-grep guidance, and the task
specialization advisory. Prompt shape is otherwise unchanged; only
erroneous references to the unavailable subagent are dropped.
Closes#7313
- Introduce task.enableEffort setting defaulting to false to hide per-spawn effort parameters.
- Conditionally include effort in single and batch task schemas and descriptions based on the new setting.
- Added guidelines stating that concurrent edits to the same files are safe.
- Specified prerequisites for safe overlap including skipping validation and defining contracts up front.
- Removes `model` field from task item/schema, TaskParams, and TaskItem types.
- Removes model selector validation, formatting, and approval display logic.
- Updates task tool priority docs to reflect that model is no longer per-call overridable.
- Updates eval agent() helper docs and prompt templates to remove model parameter.
- Updates tests to reflect removal of model override capability.
Reverted branch-side edits to spawn-policy prompts/tests, settings tab
groups, mermaid cache typing, prewalk todo gating, and packages/ai test
churn back to merge-base content; trimmed their changelog entries. These
repaired stale CI against an older main and are stale or conflicting
against current main.
Add an optional `apply` parameter to the `task` tool so
`isolated: true, apply: false` captures patch/branch artifacts without
applying changes to the parent checkout. Available as a flat top-level
control and per `tasks[]` item. Shares the task/eval isolation-to-executor
translation via a single `toStructuredSubagentIsolationControls` adapter.
- Added per-invocation task schemas with strict and permissive validation.
- Shared task and eval agent policy, artifacts, isolation, and lifecycle handling.
- Enabled host-restricted plan-mode eval agents and persisted their capability clamp.
Fixes#5279
- Simplified `bash` guidance to tighten allowed command patterns, pipeline limits, and launch-based process handling.
- Reworked `browser` instructions into grouped helper sections while preserving selector restrictions and key action semantics.
- Harmonized `eval`, `irc`, `read`, and `todo` prompt wording around state reuse, messaging, selector formats, and task operations.
- Enabled granular task execution by allowing batches to interleave blocking items with non-blocking async background spawns.
- Updated task orchestration to support simultaneous inline result collection and persistent background job tracking.
- Improved agent visibility in the job tool by reporting running subagents even when not explicitly linked to a backing job ID.
- Enhanced terminal state handling to prevent premature tool block closures while async background operations remain active.
- Renamed task wire fields, replacing `assignment` and `description` with `task` and `name` while removing `role` references.
- Implemented automated task UI label generation using a tiny model to replace manual role descriptions.
- Updated task execution and rendering logic to support per-item agent resolution and dynamic badge display.
- Migrated schemas, prompts, and test suites to enforce the new flat task structure and agent-centric policy.
- Clarified prompt instructions to emphasize using specific agent roles over the default worker.
- Updated the task prompt template to provide clearer guidance on agent selection policies.
- Removed unused template logic related to the default agent identification.
- Centralized task concurrency and delegation logic by moving instructions from individual tool descriptions to the system prompt.
- Introduced conditional system prompt logic to handle model-specific task policies, including support for GPT-5.6.
- Added infrastructure for task concurrency normalization and IRC steering state within the system prompt configuration.
- Refactored prompt inputs and session logic to enable dynamic system prompt updates based on model-specific policy cohorts.
- Renamed the `explore` agent to `scout` throughout prompt templates, agent definitions, and configuration schemas.
- Updated documentation and internal tool references to reflect the new agent identity.
- Updated task tool schemas to default the `agent` parameter to `'task'`.
- Normalized missing or empty `agent` values to `'task'` during execution handling to support direct programmatic callers.
- Replaced references to the old `quick_task` worker type with `sonic`.
- Simplified prompt instructions by removing deprecated single-spawn context constraints and status polling notes.
Three independent paths bypassed the user's subagent caps:
1. TaskTool.#getSpawnSemaphore sized the spawn semaphore from
task.maxConcurrency only on first use and never re-read the setting,
so lowering the cap mid-session left every later spawn running
against the old ceiling. Resize the live semaphore against the
current setting on each acquire.
2. The task tool prompt threaded MAX_CONCURRENCY through to the
template but never rendered it. A model with task.maxConcurrency=1
could still emit oversized tasks[] batches that registered
immediately and piled up behind the semaphore. Render a 'Concurrency
cap' directive in task.md whenever the setting is bounded.
3. The eval agent() bridge's assertDepthAllowed gated only against
the hardcoded EVAL_AGENT_MAX_DEPTH=3 and ignored
task.maxRecursionDepth, so a user-tightened recursion limit
(0='None', 1='Single') still let cell-spawned subagents recurse
to depth 3. Mirror the task tool's canSpawnAtDepth gate, clamped
by the hard ceiling.
Fixes#3895
- Optimized instruction sets for core agent tools including task, lsp, job, and irc.
- Standardized tool documentation structure by replacing parameter listings with structural instruction blocks.
- Mandated new communication and technical workflows for subagent results, symbol-aware code intelligence, and background task management.
- Refined messaging and coordination guidelines to prioritize inter-agent communication and direct operations.
- Add a dedicated `<parallel-reflex>` section to the system prompt to discourage serial work habits and enforce parallelization by default.
- Refine task-spawning guidance to emphasize intentional delegation, agent specialization, and clear assignment criteria.
- Update `task.md` parallelization heuristics and rule definitions to clarify when subagents should be deployed concurrently versus sequentially.
- Shortened language in `browser.md`, `eval.md`, and `prompt.md` to improve clarity and reduce token consumption.
- Refined instructional phrasing throughout the tool documentation for better readability.
- Simplified system and personality prompts for improved conciseness and clarity.
- Streamlined tool instruction sets and parameter descriptions across all agent modules.
- Refactored prompt documentation in `hashline` to clarify terminology and task-specific constraints.
- Updated tool metadata in TypeScript service definitions to align with reduced documentation verbosity.
Document the `role` parameter in the task-tool description (both the
batch and single-spawn shapes) and make tailored specialists the default
rule, not the exception. Direct a recursing worker to pass a `role` for
each sub-specialist. Activates the role field from #2467 for the model.
Refs #2468
Op: extend
- Updated run-summary test mocks to track tool completion and only surface steering messages after the first task finishes.
- Reworked steering message retrieval from call counts to completion-and-drain state so pre-chat polls no longer block tool execution.
- Revised task prompt guidance to require batching multiple `tasks[]` in one call when subagents share context.
- Updated TaskTool to skip `session.asyncJobManager` and run `task` spawns inline whenever `async.enabled` is false.
- Set `async.enabled` default to `true` and updated task prompts/settings text to reflect async-versus-sync behavior.
- Adjusted task batching tests to cover both async background execution and synchronous batched execution when async is disabled.
- Replaced task-simple-mode with a `task.batch` setting enabled by default.
- Updated task schema to use batch `{agent, context, tasks[]}` payloads.
- Migrated task execution to spawn one async job per task and merge outputs.
- Removed per-call schema passing while preserving legacy flat task calls.
- Removed `resume` from task params and schema, requiring agent and assignment inputs.
- Dropped resume continuation paths in task execution and call rendering, always spawning a new agent.
- Removed the `irc.enabled` setting and computed IRC availability by task-depth rules.
- Updated task follow-up guidance to use IRC messaging/history links instead of `task(resume:)`.
The task tool now takes a single { agent, assignment, description, ... } and always runs the subagent in the background — the batch tasks[] array and shared context parameter are gone. Fan-out is parallel task calls; shared background flows through a '/Users/can/.omp/agent/sessions/-Projects-.tree-pi-commit/2026-06-10T15-36-32-782Z_019eb22d-970e-7000-8964-72c98becf3e8/local' file referenced in each assignment.\n\nIntroduces a persistent subagent lifecycle: finished subagents stay live as idle, the lifecycle manager parks them to disk after task.agentIdleTtlMs (default 7 minutes; 0 keeps them live until exit), and they revive automatically when prompted from the Agent Hub, messaged on IRC, or resumed via task. New task(resume: "<id>") revives an idle or parked subagent and runs a follow-up assignment in its existing session.\n\nAdds soft request budgets (explore/quick_task 40, others 90, configurable via task.softRequestBudget, 0 disables): crossing the budget injects a one-time wrap-up steer into the child; crossing 1.5× aborts the run gracefully. Cancelled/aborted subagent salvage replaces the old (no output) with the child's last activity snippet plus request/token stats; SingleResult tracks a per-child requests counter (assistant message_end events) used to sort agent lists in runtime-ascending order in both the live progress view (finished agents above pending/running) and the finalized result view, so rows no longer reshuffle on finalize. Adds a task gallery fixture variant for the resume path (renderer key separated from fixture key).\n\nAll task tests are reshaped around the single-call contract; tests for the discarded shared-context flow are removed, and new task-guards/task-resume/task-schema tests pin the new contract surface.
- Rewrote prescriptive prose to MUST/NEVER/SHOULD/MAY phrasing.
- Pruned internal mechanism the agent can't act on from tool prompts.
- Fixed garbled grammar and a stale plan-title placeholder.
- Made ssh tool description synchronous via cached host info.
- Removed restated warnings, dead `rsed` references, and an internal file pointer.
- Dropped blocked `sed -i`/heredoc commands from the replace bash-alternatives table.
- Factored the shared repo-default clause across `gh` search ops.
- Switched gh job-success icon to the status.success symbol.
- Converted compaction, branch, and handoff prompts to fragment voice.
- Replaced "You MUST" phrasing with bare "MUST" directives.
- Applied same rewrite to autoresearch and turn-aborted prompts.
- Added `isReadOnlyAgent` and `READ_ONLY_TOOL_NAMES` to classify agents.
- Marked read-only agents and forbade edits, commands, and reasoning offload.
- Added tests for capability classification and description rendering.
- Changed `AgentOutputManager` to use requested names verbatim, adding `-2`/`-3` suffixes only on repeats (e.g. `Anna`, `Anna-2`).
- Renamed main agent id from `0-Main` to `Main`; nested ids now use dot notation without numeric prefix (e.g. `Parent.Child`).
- Updated task widget to render dotted hierarchy as `Parent>Child` breadcrumb without leading index.
- Resume scan now tracks seen names instead of a counter to avoid clobbering prior outputs.
- Updated structural diff handling to detect offscreen content growth before the viewport.
- Triggered a `historyRebuild` when a pure tail repaint would miss expanded offscreen rows.
- Added regressions to confirm expanded rows appear in scrollback and collapsed `ctrl+o` markers are removed.
- Updated the task prompt rules to prioritize maximum batch width and avoid single-task batches for divisible work.
- Allowed overlapping task assignments by clarifying that hash-anchored edits and IRC deconfliction handle collisions.
- Adjusted large-payload guidance to route data through local URIs, with context-only content exempted when applicable.
Slava Zavadsky