| name | safe-task-spawn |
| description | Spawn and supervise tasks safely with registry controls, resource quotas, and rollback-ready delegation. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, Task, TodoWrite |
| model | sonnet |
| x-version | 3.2.0 |
| x-category | orchestration |
| x-vcl-compliance | v3.2.0 |
| x-cognitive-frames | HON, MOR, COM, CLS, EVD, ASP, SPC |
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Purpose
Create and supervise child tasks without uncontrolled fan-out, keeping registry, quotas, and evidence tracking aligned with confidence ceilings.
Trigger Conditions
- Positive: spawning sub-tasks, parallelizing work, delegating to specialized agents, burst control, and watchdog setup.
- Negative: single-thread execution, prompt-only edits (route to prompt-architect), or new skill creation (route to skill-forge).
Guardrails
- Skill-Forge structure-first: maintain
SKILL.md,examples/,tests/; addresources//references/or document remediation tasks. - Prompt-Architect hygiene: record intent, HARD/SOFT/INFERRED constraints, and provide pure-English outputs with ceilings.
- Spawn safety: cap concurrency, enforce registry-only agents, define quotas/timeouts, and set rollback/abort paths; honor hook latency budgets.
- Adversarial validation: test runaway prevention, failure retries, and cancellation flow; capture evidence.
- MCP tagging: persist spawn runs with WHO=
safe-task-spawn-{session}and WHY=skill-execution.
Execution Playbook
- Intent & limits: capture goal, constraints, quotas, and safety thresholds; confirm inferred limits.
- Plan & registry: define child tasks, assign owners, and register agents with namespaces.
- Spawn & supervise: launch tasks with timeouts/backoff; track TodoWrite and health.
- Safety nets: set circuit breakers, cancellation rules, and rollback steps.
- Validation loop: simulate overload, timeout, and failure scenarios; log telemetry and evidence.
- Delivery: report tasks, outcomes, risks, and confidence ceiling.
Output Format
- Objective and constraints with quotas/timeouts.
- Task list with owners, schedules, and safety rules.
- Validation evidence (overload, cancel, retry) and residual risks.
- Confidence:
X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY) - rationale.
Validation Checklist
- Structure-first assets present or ticketed; examples/tests aligned to spawn controls.
- Quotas, timeouts, and registry enforced; rollback/abort paths validated; hooks within budget.
- Adversarial/COV runs stored with MCP tags; confidence ceiling declared; English-only output.
Completion Definition
Spawning is complete when tasks finish or are cleanly aborted, evidence is stored, quotas respected, and risks owned with next steps logged.
Confidence: 0.70 (ceiling: inference 0.70) - Safe spawning SOP rebuilt with skill-forge structure and prompt-architect constraint and confidence discipline.