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kingwl 6fa2377e34 subagent: capture overrides at delegation; stamp ahead of prompt vetoes
Review fixes (ds-review-bot on #623):

- Capture-at-delegation: the driver now reads overrideOf(parent.session)
  for both knobs synchronously before its first await, and the prompt-submit
  listener stamps those captured values — a parent switch racing the child's
  asynchronous creation belongs to the parent's future, not the child. The
  inheritOverride(parent, child) service method is split into its two halves
  (overrideOf / stampOverride) accordingly.
- Veto safety: the one-shot prompt-submit listener registers with
  prepend: true, so a veto-capable listener (a denying UserPromptSubmit
  hook) cannot close the child's first turn without the durable stamp.

Both regressions are pinned red-first in inheritance.spec.ts: the
delegation-vs-late-switch race (delegate tool flips the caller wider while
the creation transaction is pending) and a blocking prompt-submit listener
(stamp survives a promptless first turn). Service contract tests renamed to
the split API; READMEs and the bilingual Agent Note updated.
2026-07-25 10:51:25 +08:00
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2026-07-19 22:52:03 +08:00

subagent/ — subagent capability family

The subagent seam: an agent delegating work to a child agent. Like the bash and llm families this is a capability seam (see capability seams) — but with one defining difference: multiple provider implementations coexist in one context, registered by name, rather than the single-implementation bash shape. The registry mirrors the LLM adapter registry.

Package Role ctx key
subagent/ Abstract subagent seam: named-provider registry + vocabulary ctx.subagents
subagent-inprocess/ Shared in-process run driver (no provider; one cleanup effect per run)
subagent-spawn/ In-process backend: a fresh child agent (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-fork/ In-process backend: a child seeded with the parent's completed-turn prefix (registers on ctx.subagents)
subagent-subprocess/ Shared out-of-process machinery: env scrub, dispose ladder, isolated config dirs (pure lib; registers nothing)
subagent-acp/ Out-of-process backend: a child agent in a spawned subprocess, driven over ACP (registers on ctx.subagents)
tool-subagent/ Model-facing subagent delegation tool over ctx.subagents (registers on ctx.tools)

The interface lives at subagent/subagent/. The in-process subagent-spawn / subagent-fork backends share the subagent-inprocess driver (a library with no provider of its own — both depend on it, neither on the other), and the out-of-process subagent-acp backend builds on the subagent-subprocess library (the credential env scrub, the dispose ladder, isolated config dirs). Tests replace only the child boundary with package-local fixtures.

The proposal and design rationale: .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md.