dekko-delegate

Briefing subagents with dekko

The parent session was oriented at start-up; a subagent never is. It doesn't know the repo has a map, so it greps, reads whole files, and spends its first several thousand tokens rebuilding a picture the map already holds. Fix both halves in the prompt: give it the digest, and tell it to use the tools.

Procedure

1. Compute the digest once, scoped to the task. Run it in Bash and paste the output verbatim; don't summarize it by hand.

   Agent's job	Paste	Budget
   Explore, answer questions, locate code	dekko orient --budget 800	~800 tokens; ~1200 on a repo with more than ~10 top-level directories
   Implement or review a change	dekko workset [REV] --budget 2000 (or --symbol <sym>), with --task "<what the agent must do>"	1500-3000; the 6000 default is sized for the parent, not a brief
   Work on one symbol or file	dekko context <sym> --budget 800 or dekko outline <path>	~800
   Several agents on one subtree each	one dekko orient for all, plus dekko outline <dir> per agent	orient once, outline ~500 each

   With no Bash, the MCP summary (budget 800) or workset tools give the same digest; add the "Tools" paragraph below yourself, since only dekko orient prints a steering preamble.

2. Put the digest and the instructions in the prompt, under their own heading so the agent treats them as given, not as something to re-derive:

   ## Repo map (from dekko; already computed, do not redo)
   <pasted output>
   
   ## Tools
   This repo has a .dekko/ map. Use the dekko MCP tools
   (mcp__plugin_dekko_dekko__* or mcp__dekko__*; the dekko-orient
   skill applies) or `dekko <cmd>` in Bash, before any grep or
   whole-file Read: search_code to find code by what it does,
   outline for a file's shape, get_callers / impacted_tests for
   impact, get_context_pack with with_source for the lines to edit.
   Every tool regenerates a stale map itself; never run `dekko map`
   by hand, and never stop or kill dekko processes (`dekko serve
   --mcp`, `dekko daemon`): they belong to the parent session.