“2 of 7 agents aborted before doing any work; 5 completed only because they ignored the brief and worked in "degraded mode" — reading source docs directly and using the shared memory namespace as a bus.”

— mamd69, on GitHub · Issue #2028, What happened

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From “Subagents cannot use SendMessage/TaskUpdate in Claude Code harness — hive-mind coordination silently fails”, found 2026-10-14.

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Part of the cause is which tools Claude Code gives subagents, so not all of it is Ruflo. The fix was a documentation change in 3.7.0-alpha.69.

Tools it’s about