Delegation Core Framework

Delegation Core Framework

Overview

A method for deciding when and how to delegate tasks to external LLM services. Core principle: delegate execution, retain high-level reasoning.

Default Posture

Delegation is on. Declining it is the step that takes a decision.

Any conjure operation, mission phase, or workflow that reaches eligible work delegates it without being asked. Eligible means the work is execution rather than reasoning, which the philosophy below defines and modules/task-assessment.md classifies. An operator who wants delegation off says so once, in one of the two places under Declining Delegation.

This inverts the earlier framing, which listed the occasions on which to delegate and so made delegation something a caller had to remember. The occasions were correct and are now the exception list instead.

Keep Local

Delegation stops at the boundary the philosophy draws. Keep the work local when any of these hold:

• The task is reasoning: architecture, design, trade-offs, judgment.
• The prompt or context carries a secret, a credential, or data that should not leave the machine.
• The task needs iteration with the operator turn by turn.
• Correctness cannot be validated after the fact.

The first is the standing exception and covers most of what Claude does. The rest are the red flags modules/task-assessment.md already lists.

Declining Delegation

Two switches, environment over file.

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