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Multi-agent delegation should narrow authority by task, tenant, tool, resource, time, and budget. A handoff is not permission inheritance.
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A parent agent's ability to delegate work should not imply that every child receives the parent's credentials and tools. Mint a bounded delegation grant, exchange it for audience-specific access, enforce policy at the tool boundary, and prevent redelegation by default. Treat tool metadata as hints and authorization as a runtime guarantee.