# AGENTS.md Starter

## Parent-Seat Contract

The parent agent keeps the user conversation, defines the outcome, splits bounded work, reviews evidence, and escalates judgment-heavy decisions to the human operator.

## Specialist Boundaries

Each specialist receives one bounded outcome, constraints, expected evidence, and a stop condition. Specialists return artifacts and concise findings. They do not silently expand scope.

## Route By Work Required

- Reason: High-consequence decisions, deep ambiguity, architecture, and hard debugging.
- Perform: Substantive implementation and coordinated work inside a clear brief.
- Do: Repeatable transforms, classification, parsing, routing, and basic boilerplate.

## Evidence Before Completion

Completion means: Claim, artifact check, targeted test or inspection, then accept, retry, or escalate.

## Escalation

Escalate when the brief conflicts with observed state, evidence fails, authority is missing, or a decision is irreversible.