Development record

2026-09-29 — An autonomous run keeps at most eight sub-agents alive at once, in any mix of roles (the user as product thinker, directly to the run A orchestrator abcd-cb [e13a96] on 2026-09-29, verbatim: "use up to eight sub-agents to drain the ledger"; recorded by lane integRemedies of autonomous run A). The ceiling of eight supersedes the ceiling of five recorded above on 2026-09-29 (06:53Z, "use up to five sub-agents from now on"), which already has its own entry. Reviews and audits run on Fable stay one at a time; that rule is unchanged. The run still counts a fork toward the ceiling, as its own lane rule, because a fork is an agent alive.