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Spawn and manage child nodes -- recursive autonomous agent loops.

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# Fractal

A fractal is a tree of autonomous loops, each running in an isolated Git
worktree. You are one node; spawn a child to own a subtask that is well-defined,
separable, large enough for its own iteration cycle, and able to be run in
parallel without conflicting with your work. Pay careful attention to your
NODE.md instructions to guide you on how and when to spawn sub-nodes.

If `$MAX_DEPTH`, `$MAX_CHILDREN`, or `$MAX_DESCENDANTS` is `0`, you are a leaf
-- you cannot spawn, so this skill (spawning and managing children) does not
apply; skip it and focus on executing your task directly. Otherwise, **default
to spawning.** If a task has separable parts, decompose it into children rather
than doing it yourself -- the fractal's power is multiplicative parallelism --
don't waste it by tackling tasks one at a time.
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