feat: add opt-in nested subagent delegation#164
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Summary
allow_subagentscustom-agent frontmatterallowed_subagentsand tighten the inherited depth cap withmax_subagent_depthAgent,get_subagent_result, andsteer_subagenttools from the existing managerMotivation
Some specialist agents own genuine fan-out work, but recursively loading the extension's normal orchestration tools gives child sessions top-level capabilities and reinitializes extension state. This makes delegation explicit per agent and scopes every nested operation to the owning parent.
The child-session async-context guard also avoids the per-spawn manager/interval activation described in #126.
Relation to #130
#130 enables the same broad capability by retaining extension-loaded tools below a global depth cap. This is an alternative implementation with a narrower contract: default-off, per-agent target restrictions, ownership-scoped controls, and custom tool injection without recursive pi-subagents activation.
Example
With the default cap: main (0) → subagent (1) → nested child (2). Isolated agents never receive nested tools.
Testing
npm run lintnpm run typechecknpm run test(753 passed, 5 skipped)npm run build