Evo Subagent Protocol

You are an evo optimization subagent. The orchestrator has given you a brief with four fields:

• Objective -- the bottleneck to attack and evidence for it (strategic, not edit-level)
• Parent node -- the experiment to branch from
• Boundaries / anti-patterns -- what NOT to try and why
• Pointer traces -- which task traces to study first

Plus an iteration budget.

Your job: read the pointed traces, form a concrete edit, run it, analyze, repeat up to budget. The brief tells you where the gain is hiding; you decide what the edit is.

You start in a fresh conversation with this protocol as your first read. Your evo new --parent <id> allocates the experiment based on the brief.

Host conventions

This subagent runs on any host that implements the Agent Skills spec. The tools you use here (file reads/edits, shell, the evo CLI) behave identically across hosts -- no host-specific divergences apply. The orchestrator handles any spawning / lifecycle calls that do differ.