subagent: inherit parent sandbox/approval overrides in in-process children
Per-session policy overrides (sandbox/mode, approval/policy) never crossed the delegation boundary: a spawn child of a read-only-switched parent ran under the wider deployment default, and a fork child missed any switch made after its seed boundary — delegation was a bypass channel for a user's tightening. The in-process driver now snapshots the delegating parent's override chain and stamps it onto the child through the canonical write paths (SandboxPolicyService.inheritOverride / ApprovalService.inheritOverride), anchored inside the child's first turn via a one-shot agent/prompt-submit listener: turn-enclosed (durable), ahead of the first request (an inherited 'never' reaches the child's first system prompt), and positioned after any stale fork-seed switch so the ordinary last-event-wins fold resolves it. Only overrides are copied — an unswitched parent stamps nothing and the child follows the live deployment default; both services are consumed opportunistically, so compositions without them delegate unchanged. Nesting composes by construction (each stamp folds the already-stamped parent log). Evidence: inheritance.spec.ts drives scripted-model children into the real dsh-fs-sandbox fence through the real write tool (disk-state + denial-marker assertions; spawn, stale-seed fork, grandchild, escalation fail-closed, and no-stamp guards), inheritOverride contract tests in both service suites, and the recorded subagent-sandbox-inheritance ACP snapshot (read-only preset → delegate → child denied, replayed keylessly). See .agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-25-subagent-policy-inheritance.md.
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- **Who decides whether a call asks in the first place?** Policy producers: a hook returning `permissionDecision: ask`, any `tools/pre-execute` listener, or the sandbox escalation gate. The seam and the bridge only route and answer; neither injects its own judgment about what deserves a prompt.
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- **What happens when the user dismisses the prompt, or the turn aborts mid-ask?** Dismissal maps to `cancelled` with its own deny text. An already-aborted signal settles `cancelled` without dispatching; an abort during the ask discards the late answer. When both audit appends commit, either path records one pair, never two.
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- **What if the client answers with an option the harness never offered?** Any selection other than the offered `allow_once` maps to `rejected` — an unknown optionId from a non-conforming client can never grant.
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- **How do subagents' approvals route?** An agent no answerer owns delegates through the whole waterfall and fails closed — in-process subagents are deliberately unanswerable. `subagent-acp`'s child-side auto-answer is separate; routing a child's asks to the parent's editor is deferred (§ Deferred).
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- **How do subagents' approvals route?** An agent no answerer owns delegates through the whole waterfall and fails closed — in-process subagents are deliberately unanswerable. The session POLICY does cross the boundary: a `'never'` parent's children inherit `'never'` via a stamped override ([the subagent policy-inheritance Agent Note](2026-07-25-subagent-policy-inheritance.md)), so they are told up front instead of asking into the empty waterfall. `subagent-acp`'s child-side auto-answer is separate; routing a child's asks to the parent's editor is deferred (§ Deferred).
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- **What does `policy: 'never'` actually change at runtime?** The service resolves every ask for that session to `rejected` before dispatching any answerer (in-service, so no registration order can bypass it); the system prompt states the policy; switches are narrated at boundaries; each successful auto-rejection records the audit pair.
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- **What happens across a hot reload, or when the UI plugin unloads mid-session?** Answerers dispose with their owning fiber, so the next ask degrades to `unavailable` instead of hanging on a dead channel; remounting re-registers the answerer with no catch-up state.
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- **Where does the user see what they are approving?** On the tool call itself: the prompt attaches to the already-streamed call via `callId` — arguments included — and adds the asker's human-readable `reason`; the request carries no argument copy of its own.
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