Agent Delegation

Direct Work

• A standalone agent does the task directly.
• Never simulate team roles, briefs or reports in standalone work.
• Task size or caution does not establish a team session.

Delegated Work

• Authorized delegation uses configured Herdr-managed agents through their owner scripts.
• Native subagent, spawn, task and team mechanisms are forbidden delegation routes, including tools, skills and CLI wrappers.
• The restriction covers nested delegation, research, review and read-only work.
• If the route or an eligible worker is unavailable, retain task ownership and use the authorized recovery or escalation route.
• An unavailable route never authorizes native fallback.
• Explicit role restrictions and independence requirements remain binding.

Optional Team Policy

• Team execution requires the separately installed jbaruch/herdr-policy contract and verified session authority.
• Installing that package alone does not create a team session or authorize dispatch.
• Ordinary direct work requires no team runtime, ledger, report or hook.