fix(subagents): guide first-level delegation - #58
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Summary
Tell first-level subagents that the primary agent delegated their task, and place fan-out policy in the
subagentandforktool descriptions. The guidance is now advertised only alongside the capabilities it governs, and Kit is bumped to 0.1.112.Motivation
First-level subagents could interpret available nesting depth as a reason to delegate the task they had just received, causing redundant decomposition and unnecessary subagent growth. Subagent usage guidance in the system prompt also added noise when delegation tools were unavailable.
Impact
Depth 1 receives concise task context plus tool-local guidance that preserves adaptive fan-out for independently useful workstreams. Primary and maximum-depth system prompts contain no subagent usage guidance; maximum-depth agents continue to omit
subagentandforkentirely.