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What changed

Adds a Delegation section to code-max and mirrors it in the README, quality gates, and report template.

• Fan out only for independent, read-only slices whose value justifies the extra tokens.
• Keep the parent as the sole code writer; do not dispatch parallel writers.
• Brief every worker with an objective, output contract, owned scope, sources/tools, budget, and stop condition.
• Require evidence (file:line or URL, command output, what was not checked), not verdicts.
• Keep worker detail in scratch files and return summaries, not transcripts.
• Bound width, set per-worker timeouts, and stop follow-up batches when returns diminish.
• Reconcile observations by evidence strength while contracts govern intended behavior.
• Review independently: authors cannot review their own diff, and parents cannot independently review their child's work.

Evidence

Synthesized from Anthropic's multi-agent research write-up (90.2% breadth-first gain, ~15x chat tokens, 80% of variance from token usage, and the coding caveat), Cognition's single-writer and clean-context reviewer findings (2025 and 2026), Claude Code subagent docs (fresh context, depth/concurrency limits), the MAST failure taxonomy, and a 2026 compute-normalized study finding single agents match multi-agent systems under equal token budgets.

Sources:

• https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system
• https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
• https://cognition.ai/blog/dont-build-multi-agents
• https://cognition.ai/blog/multi-agents-working
• https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13657
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02460
• https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/multi_agent/

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• docs frontmatter/size check
• local Markdown link check
• git diff --check
• SKILL.md is 196 lines (limit 200)

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The documentation adds rules for delegating independent, read-only work and for checking worker evidence. It also adds an optional report section and a quality-gate question to record delegated work and identify unverified claims.

Changes: Delegation guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Delegation rules SKILL.md, README.md	SKILL.md adds guidance on worker selection, scope, evidence, fan-out, synthesis, and independent review. It updates section references and numbering. README.md summarizes the delegation constraints.
Delegation reporting references/quality-gates.md, references/report-template.md	The quality gate asks reviewers to check reports for worker scope, what workers read, and unverified claims. The report template adds an optional section for recording this information.

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 63ef1

README readers may miss delegation constraints. Update the summary to reflect them.

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- Around line 20-22: Update the “Delegation, with one writer” summary to include
the per-worker timeout and independent-review boundaries, matching the precise
constraints established by the implementation or existing documentation without
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