The Delegation Danger Band: Why Mid-Capability Sub-Agents Over-Trust Inherited Stale State

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arXiv:2610.00041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent frameworks increasingly delegate work by forking sub-agents; a common default makes the child inherit the parent's full working context. We measure how the effect of inherited state changes with capability, where $C_m$ denotes clean fork-fresh accuracy. We compare 3 inheritance policies: Reset (fork fresh: base evidence only), Selective (curated handoff: + the useful prior conclusion), and Full (implicit fork: + the useful conclusion and $d