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deepseek-harness/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/README.md
Dudu-0223 99a778d63f feat(subagent): continuable background subagents
Implement the continuable background subagents RFC: a durable child
session with a series of Task-backed activations, each disposing its
run before the Task settles.

- dsh-subagent: rename SubagentRun.sendMessage to strict steer, drop
  run-level resume, add SubagentProvider.resume dispatch via
  SubagentService.resume, the continuation start field, and the
  versioned model-hidden subagent/descriptor session event.
- dsh-subagent-inprocess/-spawn/-fork: publish the control-allocated
  child id, append the descriptor inside the initial turn, implement
  cold resume from the child's own transcript under the live parent
  scope, and strict running-only steer.
- dsh-subagent-control (new): SubagentControlService owning stable
  child ids, descriptor snapshot/fold/authorization, Task-backed
  activation with settle-then-dispose ordering, the process-local
  active-run association, and steer-or-resume sendMessage routing.
- dsh-tool-subagent: background route branches on the provider's
  resume capability (continuable via the control service; one-shot
  task for ACP), returning both child and task ids.
- dsh-tool-subagent-control (new): the globally named send_message
  tool rendering steered/started routes.

Keyless coverage spans Task ownership and disposal ordering, running
delivery, cold follow-up, descriptor rejection and rollback, known-id
reconstruction, kill during lookup, admission races, and a new
subagent-continuable ACP snapshot scenario.
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# @deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-spawn
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The spawn provider creates a fresh child `Agent` in the current process. The child has its own session, sees no parent conversation history, and reuses the host's agent factory and LLM/tool services.
## Behavior
`start(request)` delegates to [`startInProcessRun`](../subagent-inprocess/README.md) with no seed and awaits publication before returning. The child receives parent working-directory/session lineage and inherits the parent model unless overridden, but starts with an empty conversation.
The shared driver owns depth checking, persona and tool-filter setup, structured output, required-signal cancellation, one-shot execution, result reading, and quiescent disposal. A startup rejection leaves no published child; provider unload after fulfillment does not revoke the holder-owned run.
## Capabilities
Spawn advertises `{ outputSchema: true, depthLimit: true, toolFilter: true, persona: true }` because it controls the child's creation window and can enforce all four features.
## Config
| Key | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `providerName` | Registry name on `ctx.subagents` (default `spawn`). |
## Model Experience
### Child-agent request
#### What the model sees
The fresh child receives the standalone task content verbatim, inherits the parent model and workspace by default, and sees the global prompt with any configured child-scoped persona shadow. A tool filter removes global wire schemas, executable lookup, and Code Mode SDK bindings for that child but leaves independently registered guidance. It receives zero parent conversation messages; the filter is visibility/composition, not an authority grant inherited from the parent.
#### Token effect
The child pays for a new independent context and history; no parent-history tokens are duplicated. Persona changes this child's repeated prompt cost, while filtering changes its schema or generated SDK cost.
#### KV Cache effect
Independent of the parent request cache. Child history grows append-only, while persona, tool-filter, generated-SDK, provider, or model changes establish a different child prefix.
### Parent tool result, indirectly
#### What the model sees
Through `dsh-tool-subagent`, the parent receives only the child's final output or stop-reason error.
#### Token effect
Parent input grows by one data-dependent result retained until compaction.
#### KV Cache effect
Append-only; newly visible content follows the reusable request prefix and does not invalidate existing KV-cache entries.
## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- **Fresh means no parent transcript** — the child inherits cwd, lineage, model, and explicitly configured persona/tool restrictions, but none of the parent's conversation; use the fork provider when completed-turn context is required.