user agrees.
A permanent child agent lives in ``agent/children/NAME/`` with the same
-files as the root. Create its directory and ``config.json`` by hand
-before startup. Use the root config fields with a separate random ID,
-set ``name`` to ``NAME``, and add ``parent`` with the root name and
-``responsibility`` with the child's area. The daemon opens all children
-at startup. A missing or invalid child config stops startup. Only one
-level of children is supported.
+files as the root. The root's ``agent_create(name, responsibility)``
+tool creates and starts it with the root's model, effort, and working
+directory, and a separate random ID. A name describes the area, such as
+``House`` or ``Calendar``. It is one word of 2 to 32 ASCII letters,
+starts with a capital letter, and cannot name the root, an existing
+child, or a subagent. The daemon opens all children at startup. A
+missing or invalid child config stops startup. Only one level of
+children is supported. Remove a child by hand while the daemon is
+stopped. The root's turn state lists each child and its responsibility.
+The root passes area messages from mixed chats with sender, date, and
+words, and asks the user before it sends a child's draft to WhatsApp.
Each child has its own memory, model client, usage file, subagents,
schedules, and turn loop. Its prompt limits work to its area, asks for
only reports that need the parent or the user, and permits an empty
reply. Children have no WhatsApp tools and draft replies instead of
-sending them. Clients and WhatsApp still address only the root. There
-are no messages or tools between parent and child agents. A child's
-saved schedules and subagents can resume at startup. The ready log line
-lists the child names.
+sending them. Clients address only the root. A child's saved schedules
+and subagents can resume at startup. The ready log line lists the child
+names.
+
+A message from a parent to its own child enters the child's log as
+``user`` and wakes it. A child's final reply reaches the parent as
+``work`` with the prefix ``[NAME] `` and wakes it. An empty reply sends
+nothing. A busy recipient takes the message between tool calls or in its
+next turn. ``agent/messages.json``, with mode 0600, keeps messages until
+their recipient finishes its turn. A daemon stop preserves queued
+messages and reports for the next start without a second log entry. An
+interrupted turn can repeat its model calls and tools after restart.
+Backups lock this queue with the agent files, including children made
+during the daemon run. The root uses ``tell`` for both children and
+subagents. ``zoom("Name")`` gives a child's view or a subagent's whole
+log. ``spawn`` starts short-lived subagents, not permanent children.
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User service
``/whatsapp status``
Shows the link: not linked, linked and connected, or linked and
- disconnected, with the times of the connection.
+ disconnected, with the times of the connection and the WhatsApp
+ routes.
``/whatsapp unlink``
Ends the link and deletes the session. When WhatsApp is disconnected,
They keep them only for a limited time, so a long stop can lose
messages. These messages form batches by their original times, as live
messages do. The daemon waits for the end of this catch-up, or one
-minute at the most, and then gives all its batches to the agent in one
-turn, not one turn for each chat. The batches of ``whatsapp/state.json``
-at the start wait for the first catch-up in the same way.
+minute at the most, and then gives all its unrouted batches to the root
+in one turn, not one turn for each chat. Routed batches wake their
+child. The batches of ``whatsapp/state.json`` at the start wait for the
+first catch-up in the same way.
The agent finds a chat with the tool ``whatsapp_find``: it gives the
contacts and the groups whose name holds a text, with no regard to case
Each batch of a group goes to the chat, also with no turn, and the
memory tree summarizes it with model calls, which use the quota.
+The root manages source routes with ``route(source, agent)``,
+``unroute(source)``, and ``routes()``, only after the user agrees. A
+source is ``whatsapp:CHAT-ID``, with the ID from ``whatsapp_find`` or a
+``[WhatsApp]`` message, and the agent must be its child. The root keeps
+the map in ``agent/routes.json`` with mode 0600. Children and subagents
+have no route tools. There is no command to change routes. Each routed
+batch enters only its child's log and wakes it, including a group batch
+with no mention. The durable agent queue prevents a second log entry
+after a restart. An unrouted source or a missing child uses the root. A
+queued batch whose child is removed while stopped goes to the root.
+
When the session holds a linked device, the daemon connects at its
start. If the first connection fails, it tries again after 2 seconds,
then doubles the wait up to 5 minutes. The inbox and commands stay
Each chat and local day becomes one work message marked ``(imported)``.
Only messages before the first message of the earliest live WhatsApp
-batch enter the import. Live times have minute precision, so the cutoff
-excludes that whole minute. A chat-day already imported is skipped.
-Overlapping chat-days in the supplied ZIPs are refused. Review the
-exports before import: their text goes to the model as chat history.
+batch for the same chat enter the import. Live times have minute
+precision, so the cutoff excludes that whole minute. A chat-day already
+imported is skipped. Overlapping chat-days in the supplied ZIPs are
+refused. Review the exports before import: their text goes to the model
+as chat history.
The import merges the full log in date order and builds its tree with
real compactor calls, the agent prompt, and the agent cache key. It uses
my WhatsApp groups talked about". A schedule has a text, the task for
the agent, and either one time or a cron expression. The agent also
lists the schedules with their next times, and removes one when the user
-asks. Only the agent has the schedule tools, not its subagents.
+asks. The root and its children have the schedule tools, not their
+subagents. Each schedule records its owner and wakes only that agent.
A cron expression has five fields: minute, hour, day of month, month,
and day of week, where 0 and 7 are Sunday. A field is a comma list of
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