using-marketer

Route Marketing Work

If the current agent is marketer, complete the request inline and never delegate, even when the request explicitly asks for marketer. This guard overrides every routing rule below and prevents recursive delegation in both Claude Code and Codex.

Decide the route before reading or invoking any marketing domain skill. Use only the installed skills' names and descriptions for this decision.

Route the request once, in this order:

• An explicit request to stay inline: stay inline.
• An explicit request for marketer: delegate.
• One installed marketing skill fully covers every concern and deliverable: use that skill inline, even when its workflow has multiple steps or outputs.
• Otherwise: delegate to marketer.

After choosing the route, follow exactly one of these mutually exclusive branches:

1. If the route is inline, make zero agent calls and execute the selected skill or skills inline.

2. If the route is delegation and marketer is known unavailable, make zero agent calls and continue inline with the smallest applicable skill set.

3. If the route is delegation and marketer is available, make exactly one named-agent call:

   • In Codex, call spawn_agent once with agent_type="marketer" and fork_turns="none". Set both fields explicitly; do not omit either field or use any other value.
   • In Claude Code, call Agent once with subagent_type="marketer".

Never spawn a generic agent, split the brief across agents, or retry with another agent type. Send only a self-contained objective, deliverables, language, constraints, and relevant evidence or paths.

In Codex, after an accepted spawn, treat that child as the selected execution path and wait for its result before answering. The outer liveness budget is 15 wait cycles. Each cycle calls wait_agent once with timeout_ms=60000, and every wait call counts even when a mailbox update wakes it early. The maximum wait is therefore 15 minutes and may be shorter after progress updates. If the wake injects the exact canonical child's completed final result, integrate it immediately and stop polling. Otherwise, inspect the spawned canonical path with list_agents. A polling timeout, progress-only message, or other wake without a completed result before the cycle budget is exhausted is not a child failure. If the canonical path is absent from list_agents, treat it as not_found. While the child is pending_init or running and cycles remain, wait again: do not call send_message, followup_task, or interrupt_agent; do not spawn, retry, begin the delegated work inline, or deliver a final answer.

If the fifteenth non-completing cycle reports the child still pending_init or running, call interrupt_agent exactly once, mark the delegation failed, make no further agent calls, and continue inline with the smallest applicable skill set. Never claim that this budget fallback completed the delegation; it cannot satisfy live delegation acceptance.

Integrate only a completed child result. If the exact named-agent call is rejected, the canonical path is absent, or the tool reports the child as errored or shutdown, make no further agent calls and continue inline with the smallest applicable skill set. Explicit user cancellation or replacement may interrupt a running child before the budget; then follow the new user intent without continuing the original delegated work inline or claiming that delegation completed. If the child becomes interrupted without either of those parent-initiated reasons, make no further agent calls, surface delegation failure, and do not continue the original work inline or claim success.