docs(policy): describe constructor-seeded inheritance

The implementation no longer stores inherited policy in SessionHeader or resolves a second baseline chain, but the feature, sandbox, and approval notes still described that machinery. Keeping those claims would make the smaller design look incomplete and invite reintroduction of the generic persistence surface.

Rewrite the owning feature note around the actual delegation snapshot: source-tagged policy events follow the optional fork prefix, ordinary last-event-wins folds establish precedence, and persistence captures the constructor seed with the first materialized batch. Condense the alternatives and consequences to the decisions and coverage that remain load-bearing.

Align the sandbox and approval notes plus the subagent-inprocess consumer README with that contract. Update the four Chinese counterparts minimally and re-record each pairing hash so both languages describe the same shipped mechanism.
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Tianyi Cui
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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.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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 controller is deferred (§ Deferred).
- **How do subagents' approvals route?** An agent no answerer owns delegates through the whole waterfall and fails closed — in-process subagents are deliberately unanswerable. A `'never'` parent seeds that override into each in-process child's log ([decision](2026-07-25-subagent-policy-inheritance.md)), so the child is 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 controller is deferred (§ Deferred).
- **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.
- **What happens across a hot reload, or when an answerer 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.
- **Where does a client get approval context?** The request carries the exact `callId` and the asker's human-readable `reason`; channel adapters may correlate richer tool-call state without duplicating arguments in the approval seam.