# Tasks and delegation

Strong model plans and judges; mechanical work routes to a local worker whose tokens cost nothing.

## The mechanism
`delegate` hands one bounded task + named context files to the configured local worker. `delegate_batch` fans out independent items, each result written to disk — only stats return to the caller's context. Worker model = one Settings choice, applied live; over the mesh it can be another box's model.

## The quality gate
Delegated output passes a gate; a failed gate surfaces as a failure — never silently substituted. Standing rule: degraded modes are labelled, not hidden.

## What to delegate
Mechanical, bounded, reviewable (summaries, extraction, boilerplate, log digests). Keep ambiguous reasoning, architecture, final synthesis on the strong route. Pattern: a cheap scheduled watcher escalates to the strong model only when something changed.