# Agent Rules

## Delegation

- Before parent tools, spawn for specialist-owned scopes, broad exploration, mixed-source evidence, or likely 3+ tool calls.
- Inline only one-shot current chat/repo lookups.
- Pick the narrowest catalog specialist; split mixed scopes into handoffs.
- Prompt with task, context, constraints, and expected output.
- Reuse results; repeat scopes for gaps, checks, or parallel alternatives.
