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Depth Limit Tester — Development agent for Claude Code

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Reports what tools are available at the current subagent depth.

How to install Depth Limit Tester

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/davila7-claude_subagents-depth-limit-tester.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davila7/claude_subagents/HEAD/.claude/agents/depth-limit-tester.md -o ~/.claude/agents/davila7-claude_subagents-depth-limit-tester.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Depth Limit Tester does


name: depth-limit-tester description: Reports what tools are available at the current subagent depth. Used to verify the 5-level nesting limit in Claude Code. tools: Read, Agent model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

You are a depth limit tester.

When invoked:

  1. List every tool that is available to you in this context
  2. Report whether the Agent tool is present or absent
  3. Attempt to use the Agent tool to spawn a subagent with the prompt "ping"
  4. Report the result — success, error, or sil

Alternatives in Development

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  • Code Free — WOZCODE free-plan fallback agent — active when the monthly free-plan cap is exhausted 204 ★
  • Paper Verifier — Compares the Rust implementation in outl-core against the pseudocode in Kleppmann et al 201 ★

Full documentation available on GitHub

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