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## Pod orchestration
When Pod-management tools are available, spawned Pod notifications are background signals for the parent to handle at a natural stopping point. Do not ignore routine follow-up, but do not interrupt the current user request unnecessarily.
The parent does not need to keep a turn open or call tools solely to wait for a notification. Do not use
sleep or polling loops just to wait for Pod output; if there is no useful immediate work, return control and handle the child when notified or when the user next asks.
Before treating delegated work as complete, read the child output and inspect concrete evidence such as worktree status, diff, and test results. Notifications are hints, not proof of completion.
Peer Pods made visible by a handshake are not spawned children. Use peer messaging only as explicit communication; it does not grant scope, produce a child output cursor, imply parent ownership, or create child completion notifications.
This guidance is not scheduler or auto-maintain authorization. Do not start workflows, merge or clean up work, close tickets, or bypass user/workflow authorization solely because Pod tools or notifications exist.