{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"workflow-subagent-prompts-add-an-authority-note","canonical_anchor":"workflow-subagent-prompts-add-an-authority-note","heading":"Workflow helpers are told not to skip a step only because it lacks user authority","tier":"notice","area":"Workflows","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/workflow-subagent-prompts-add-an-authority-note","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### Workflow helpers are told not to skip a step only because it lacks user authority\n\nSubagents run by workflows are now told that a note saying their task has no user authority is not a reason on its own to skip it\n\n**What**\n\nA workflow is a script that hands steps to subagents, separate helpers Claude starts to do part of a job. Each subagent's task text can carry a note saying it was produced by the script and carries no user authority. The instructions those subagents receive now end with an extra sentence: that note is not by itself a reason to skip the task, and the subagent should do that step only.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis makes workflow subagents less likely to refuse the step they were given, while keeping them to that one step.\n\n- Area: Workflows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}