Comment by verdverm

you can configure tools, thinking, permissions et al on a per agent basis in the frontmatter, or via config (which they use in the examples), either location is valid, merging order (?)

the main agent would be very different, basically an orchestrator, and you are "loop engineering" it, and turning off all the things for this main agent besides being able to run subagents

for opencode:

https://opencode.ai/docs/agents/#permissions (what tools, mcp, etc...)

https://opencode.ai/docs/agents/#task-permissions (what subagents it can call)

https://opencode.ai/docs/agents/#additional (thinking effort)