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Agent messaging: family routing and safety limits

Agent messages route between parent, direct children, and siblings in the same nuclear family; grandchild or cousin messages must relay through an intermediate agent. As of v0.7.0, delivery-mode options were removed and all messages steer. The daemon enforces size, rate, and pending-queue limits.

v v0.7.1reviewed 2026-08-09evidence code-derivedsources S008, S009, S092, S094cutoff 2026-08-09
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Family routing

Agent messages route between parent, direct children, and siblings in the same nuclear family; grandchild or cousin messages must relay through an intermediate agent. As of v0.7.0, delivery-mode options were removed and all messages steer. The daemon enforces size, rate, and pending-queue limits.

  • S008 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S009 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S092 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S094 supports the route's current claim set.

Delivery semantics

Agent messages route between parent, direct children, and siblings in the same nuclear family; grandchild or cousin messages must relay through an intermediate agent. As of v0.7.0, delivery-mode options were removed and all messages steer. The daemon enforces size, rate, and pending-queue limits.

  • S008 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S009 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S092 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S094 supports the route's current claim set.

Rate and queue limits

Agent messages route between parent, direct children, and siblings in the same nuclear family; grandchild or cousin messages must relay through an intermediate agent. As of v0.7.0, delivery-mode options were removed and all messages steer. The daemon enforces size, rate, and pending-queue limits.

  • S008 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S009 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S092 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S094 supports the route's current claim set.

v0.7.0 changes

Agent messages route between parent, direct children, and siblings in the same nuclear family; grandchild or cousin messages must relay through an intermediate agent. As of v0.7.0, delivery-mode options were removed and all messages steer. The daemon enforces size, rate, and pending-queue limits.

  • S008 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S009 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S092 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S094 supports the route's current claim set.

What this does not mean

This feature or concept does not imply a sandbox, a guarantee of success, or a claim that the harness is superior in every scenario. It only means the documented behavior exists in v0.7.1.