Cap sub-agents with fixed turn and time limits to force real prioritization
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-23
A build pattern that's working: assign sub-agents work with a fixed turn and time limit. The hard budget forces the agent to implicitly prioritize, downgrading infinite nice-to-haves and meaningless unit tests in favor of the actual task at hand.
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