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A delegated worker never gives the user an offer or question card - #634

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Delegated children kept putting question cards and coded offers to the user instead of returning the choice to their parent (four children of one task thread in one night). rules/references/multi-agent.md listed what a brief contains and had no line saying a child never asks the user, and two lines treated a child's question as legitimate.

The rule, stated where each reader looks:

  • rules/core.md § End of every reply: a delegated worker never gives the user an offer or a question card, so case 2 does not apply to it; it returns the choice, with options and a recommendation, in its final report to its parent, which decides or asks the user. This is the one place every session reads and no modifier replaces (coded-offers and model-default-questions replace § Offers).
  • The brief says it: rules/references/coordination-and-isolation.md (the default brief-contents sentence), rules/references/multi-agent.md and the multi-agent modifier.
  • Reconciled: the T3 delegated-task wake (hasPendingQuestion) and the two-minute child check now treat a pending question as a brief that lacked the rule or a child that broke it, handled by deciding it or asking the user and answering it in the child, then fixing the brief; the question-cards modifier's answer-a-delegated-card line applies only when one was raised despite § End of every reply.
  • CHANGELOG Unreleased line. No hook change, no version bump, tag or release.

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It returns the choice, with options and a recommendation, in its final report; the parent decides or asks the user. The rule is stated in Offers (and the end-of-reply case that gives an offer), the multi-agent brief contents, and the multi-agent modifier; the lines that treated a child's question as legitimate now treat it as a brief that lacked the rule or a child that broke it.
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Bompus AI Review (GPT-6.1 Terra, max reasoning; SWE-2 High, high reasoning): 2 finding(s).

Comment thread rules/core.md Resolved
Comment thread rules/modifiers/multi-agent.md Resolved
…lt brief rule, not in the replaceable Offers section

coded-offers and model-default-questions replace Offers, so a rule placed there disappeared with them; End of every reply is read by every session. The default brief-contents sentence in coordination-and-isolation.md now carries it too, since a configuration without the multi-agent modifier briefs workers from that reference.

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Bompus AI Review (GPT-6.1 Terra, max reasoning): 0 finding(s).

Review 2: only high findings and above are posted from here on.

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