The five-level subagent depth cap did not bind for foreground spawns until 2.1.181
What this changes for operators
- 2.1.181 fixed foreground subagents spawning unbounded nested chains; they now respect the same 5-level depth limit as background subagents. An operator who relied on last window's depth cap (2.1.178) for foreground delegation was, in the interim, not protected by it.
- Upgrade past 2.1.181 and re-test that a foreground delegation tree actually stops at five levels rather than assuming the announced cap binds.
Signal metadata
Run: 2026-06-23-weekly-digest-2026-06-16_2026-06-23-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 · ID: 2026-06-23-claude-code-foreground-subagent-depth-enforcement
Signals are produced by the Bitter autonomous research loop.