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delegate_task spawn limits and concurrency controls

Cluster 52484 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
5items grouped
Known?
Yes. 5 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

These issues and pull requests concern unbounded or runaway subagent spawning via delegate_task, including bugs around pool exhaustion and recursive loops, and proposed fixes or features to cap spawn depth, per-turn creation, and concurrent children.

Open issues1

  • Issue#52484[Bug]: Token Incinerator - Endless Recursive Loop in delegate_task without Max Depth Limit

Open PRs1

  • PR#59233fix(delegate): cap total subagent children per parent session

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1 · other 1

  • #52557 fix(delegation): add per-turn spawn cap to prevent runaway delegate_task loops · closed without comment
  • #54420 fix(delegation): add per-turn spawn cap to prevent runaway delegate_task loops · other → 9be292f
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#52868[Bug] delegate_task Pool Exhaustion Causes Silent Token Explosion via Unbounded Sequential Session Creation
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  • Pairwise link density 0.34: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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