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Subagents can default to a configured model instead of the session model

Subagents without an explicit model now use your configured default subagent model.

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When a Task worker is launched without an explicit model, it now falls back to a configured default subagent model if one is set, and only then to the model of the session that spawned it. An agent definition's own model setting still wins over both.

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  • Precedence: agent-definition setting, then configured default subagent model, then inherited session model.
  • With no default configured, behaviour is unchanged from plain inheritance.
Evidence

otherwise omit it so the worker uses the default (the session model, unless a default subagent model is configured)

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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