client-compatibility

Agent spawning across CLI and VS Code requires platform detection to identify the running surface and adapt tool selection. This ensures deterministic and parallel execution by applying surface-aware strategies like CLI task or VS Code runSubagent paths.

Platform-aware coordination enables a single coordinator to detect the running surface and adapt agent spawning behavior to optimize reliability and latency. It uses surface-specific paths to execute parallel subagents where supported.

Switching between CLI task and VS Code runSubagent paths is achieved by detecting available tools in the environment. The coordinator selects the appropriate spawning strategy per surface to enable automatic result delivery and parallelism.

VS Code supports parallel subagents and automatic result delivery when using a platform-aware coordinator. It detects the surface and applies surface-aware tool selection to ensure cross-platform safety and deterministic execution.

Agent execution fails when surface-restricted tools are unavailable because the spawning strategy does not match the environment. The coordinator avoids these restricted tools through platform detection, ensuring cross-platform safety and preventing errors.

No dependencies are required to run client-compatibility for cross-platform agent spawning. The coordinator initializes in your environment, detects the available tools, and adapts the spawning strategy to optimize reliability without external packages.