Parallel Agents Review Checklist

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Fit check
[ ] Work can run independently
[ ] Parallelism improves latency, coverage, or candidate quality
[ ] Partial failure is acceptable or isolated
[ ] Shared mutable state is avoided
[ ] Rate limits and tool quotas can tolerate fan-out

Fan-out contract
[ ] Parent goal captured
[ ] Worker assignments differ by role, source, hypothesis, candidate, or tool
[ ] Worker output schema declared
[ ] Worker evidence requirement declared
[ ] Worker side effects disabled by default
[ ] Per-worker timeout declared
[ ] Parent-run timeout declared
[ ] Max worker count declared
[ ] Cost, token, and tool-call budgets declared

Fan-in reducer
[ ] Merge policy declared
[ ] Tie-break rule declared
[ ] Conflict policy declared
[ ] Unsupported claims are rejected or marked low confidence
[ ] Dissent is preserved when material
[ ] Human review is used when stakes or conflicts require it

Operations
[ ] Every worker has a trace span
[ ] Timeout, refusal, and empty result are first-class outcomes
[ ] Shared tools are rate-limited
[ ] Partial outputs are stored
[ ] Early cancellation is allowed only when risk permits
[ ] Side effects require coordinator control, policy, or approval

Evaluation
[ ] Fixture covers duplicated worker scopes
[ ] Fixture covers worker timeout
[ ] Fixture covers conflicting evidence
[ ] Fixture covers unsupported claim
[ ] Fixture covers shared API rate limit
[ ] Fixture covers early passing result

Release decision
[ ] Green: ready for controlled use
[ ] Yellow: limited use; improve reducer or budgets
[ ] Red: demo only

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