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Fork Agent [Feature-Flagged]

What

A new "fork" agent type for the Task tool that creates a copy of the current conversation context to process a task in the background.

Status

Feature-flagged — only triggers when the fork experiment is active.

Details
  • When the fork experiment is active, omitting subagent_type from the Task tool creates a fork instead of using the general-purpose agent
  • Forks inherit the full conversation context from the parent
  • Fork workers cannot create nested forks ("Fork is not available inside a forked worker")
  • Uses permissionMode: "bubble" to propagate permission requests to the parent
  • System prompt indicates: "You are a forked worker process" with worktree context awareness
  • Maximum 200 turns per fork
Evidence

Fork agent definition (search for "You are a forked worker process") and fork config (search for "Implicit fork")

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

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