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New dispatch context helper and self-hop chain bound for cross-agent posts

Agent-to-agent message chains now stop themselves after a set number of self-hops or total posts

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Agent-to-agent message chains now stop themselves after a set number of self-hops or total posts

What

A new internal tracker counts how many messages each agent sends to a given recipient, and how many messages have been sent in total since your last turn. When either count crosses a limit (maxSelfHops for a single recipient, or maxChainLength overall), further posts in that chain are blocked.

Why

This extends the earlier fix that stopped message-forwarding to Claude Desktop from looping forever, applying the same kind of chain-length limit more generally to agent-to-agent messages. It prevents agents from getting stuck sending messages back and forth indefinitely.

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