Delegation budgets and depth limits
AI agents
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