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Subagent discipline — invoke whenever dispatching subagents (reviews, audits, fix fleets, research fan-outs) or whenever consuming another agent's/session's claimed results (handoff notes, "previous session fixed X", fleet self-reports). The recorded Opus failure modes: review subagents given edit access that collided and broke the build, and subagent self-reports relayed as fact without independent verification.

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name	delegate-and-verify
description	Subagent discipline — invoke whenever dispatching subagents (reviews, audits, fix fleets, research fan-outs) or whenever consuming another agent's/session's claimed results (handoff notes, "previous session fixed X", fleet self-reports). The recorded Opus failure modes: review subagents given edit access that collided and broke the build, and subagent self-reports relayed as fact without independent verification.
allowed-tools	["Agent","Bash","Read","Grep"]
metadata	{"author":"distilled-from-fable-5-sessions","version":"0.1.0-candidate"}

Delegate and Verify

The recorded failures this prevents: during a /review-before-pr, 8 subagents ran WITH edit access and "auto-applied several fixes concurrently — multiple agents touched linked-accounts.tsx… in parallel. That's risky" — the collision regressed flutter analyze from clean to failing, a CI blocker the orchestrator then had to fix (47ea3a99 L339→349). Separately, a fix-fleet's self-reported test counts were relayed as fact and pushed without an independent orchestrator run (8c0bed51 L3012→3023).

Rule 1 — Reviewers and auditors are REPORT-ONLY

Every review/audit/verification subagent prompt contains, verbatim: "REPORT ONLY. DO NOT EDIT ANY FILES." (8c0bed51 L2912-18 — the recorded Fable contract.) Fixing is a separate, deliberate phase after the verdict. If two agents may write, they get isolated worktrees or strictly disjoint file sets — never shared write access to one file.

Rule 2 — Fix-fleets get prescribed designs, not open mandates

When dispatching agents to FIX findings, prescribe the fix design for anything tricky "so nothing gets improvised badly" (8c0bed51 L2992): file:line, the intended mechanism, and what must NOT change. Open-ended "fix it" prompts to fleets produce improvisations the orchestrator then has to re-review anyway. Credit justified deviations when an agent explains one (8c0bed51 L3032) — prescription is a floor, not a cage.

Rule 3 — Never relay a subagent's self-report as fact

A subagent saying "all tests pass" or "removed all occurrences" is a CLAIM. Before you repeat it to the user, commit, or push:

re-run the gate the claim rests on yourself (or a targeted subset + the full gate before push), and
grep for what they say they removed/changed ("Verified clean — zero surviving uncertainty surfacing. Pushing" — 8c0bed51 L3013, done right; L3012→3023, the recorded lapse when the suite counts were relayed unverified). This applies equally to handoff notes from previous sessions: verify the claimed state before building on it.

Rule 4 — Delegate to buy wall-clock, not to avoid thinking

Launch research/exploration agents in the background FIRST, then do foreground work while they run ("let me launch those in the background first, then do the visual fixes while they research", ad88fbba L1012). When an agent times out or dies, adapt immediately rather than blocking: "the review agent timed out → I'll do the grilling myself with direct reads" (932ee514 L983).

Rule 5 — Size fan-outs to the budget; make them resumable

A 37-agent sweep tripped the session token limit three times and needed two "please continue" nudges (8c0bed51 L114-151). It was rescued only because the workflow was journal-resumable, and when told to stop, the right move was salvage-from-journal, not rerun (L197-207). Before a large fan-out: estimate agents × tokens vs remaining budget; prefer pipelined batches; make partial results harvestable.

Status: WEAKLY VALIDATED 2-0 (blind A/B on Opus, 2026-07-05) — read the caveat. Both wins exercised Rule 3 (never relay claimed results — the lying-handoff trap and independent ground-truthing). Rule 1 (REPORT-ONLY dispatch) was NOT testable: arms are subagents and cannot spawn subagents, so that rule rests on transcript evidence alone (47ea3a99 L339/349). Details: .claude/skills/_evidence/validation/results-batch2.md. Evidence: .claude/skills/_evidence/findings.md §F7/§D2.5/§D7 (47ea3a99 L339/349; 8c0bed51 L2912-18, L2992, L3013, L3012→3023, L197-207; ad88fbba L1012; 932ee514 L983). Last verified: 2026-07-05. Drift re-check: ls .claude/commands/review-before-pr.md

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name	delegate-and-verify
description	Subagent discipline — invoke whenever dispatching subagents (reviews, audits, fix fleets, research fan-outs) or whenever consuming another agent's/session's claimed results (handoff notes, "previous session fixed X", fleet self-reports). The recorded Opus failure modes: review subagents given edit access that collided and broke the build, and subagent self-reports relayed as fact without independent verification.
allowed-tools	["Agent","Bash","Read","Grep"]
metadata	{"author":"distilled-from-fable-5-sessions","version":"0.1.0-candidate"}

Delegate and Verify

Rule 1 — Reviewers and auditors are REPORT-ONLY

Rule 2 — Fix-fleets get prescribed designs, not open mandates

Rule 3 — Never relay a subagent's self-report as fact

A subagent saying "all tests pass" or "removed all occurrences" is a CLAIM. Before you repeat it to the user, commit, or push:

re-run the gate the claim rests on yourself (or a targeted subset + the full gate before push), and
grep for what they say they removed/changed ("Verified clean — zero surviving uncertainty surfacing. Pushing" — 8c0bed51 L3013, done right; L3012→3023, the recorded lapse when the suite counts were relayed unverified). This applies equally to handoff notes from previous sessions: verify the claimed state before building on it.