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Delegation budgets and depth limits

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Delegation budgets and depth limits

  • Delegation Depth Limits: How Deep Should Subagents Go?
  • Depth and Spend Limits for Delegating Agents
  • Depth vs Breadth: Splitting a Delegation Budget
  • Budgeting a Delegation: Tokens, Time and Depth per Subagent Call
  • Concurrency Limits for Parallel Subagents
  • Depth Limits vs Timeouts: Which Cap Fires First
  • Splitting a Token Budget Across a Fan-Out: Weights and a Floor
  • Three Budgets per Subagent Call: Tokens, Time and Depth
  • When a Subagent Hits the Depth Limit: A Graceful Return
  • Where the Depth Check Lives in Orchestrator Code
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