diff --git a/apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json b/apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json
index 0d9f26d44c40a..2e524cb1e6139 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json
+++ b/apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "claudeSystemAppendBytes": 5366,
-  "codexAdditionalContextBytes": 7096,
+  "claudeSystemAppendBytes": 5265,
+  "codexAdditionalContextBytes": 6995,
   "mcpToolListJsonBytes": 48119
 }
diff --git a/packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts b/packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts
index 703e1860f7a3f..934f32202f335 100644
--- a/packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts
+++ b/packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ Ordinary coding tasks need no T3 tools.
 - Subagents: use your native tool when the child uses your provider, a model it offers, and no settings beyond yours (Claude \`Agent\`, \`run_in_background:false\`; Codex \`spawn_agent\`, then wait). Use \`delegate_task\` for another provider's model, user-asked settings, a separate checkout (\`isolation:"worktree"\`), or \`delegate_task\` by name. A native type on another provider's model counts too. Background agent: \`delegate_task\`, never a background \`Agent\`. Workflow only when asked.
 - Call \`orchestrator_capabilities\` once per thread, before the first \`delegate_task\`. Again only after an error or a user-named provider change. Settings go in \`target.options\`. Provider or model unavailable: say so. Never switch unasked, or fall back to native tools, Workflow, or CLIs. Never make a child's checkout in the shell or in \`task\`.
 - Every new delegate review or re-check is a new \`delegate_task\` (brief, findings, objections), never a \`t3_thread_send\`. Fix small review findings yourself; start no delegate for them. When told to proceed without a delegate, or to run fewer, \`task_cancel\` the extras. Start no replacement.
-- Follow a running delegate's \`next\`. Do not poll it (\`task_status\`, \`sleep\`, watchers, Monitor, ScheduleWakeup). Stop a delegate run you replace or no longer need with \`task_cancel\`, never \`t3_thread_interrupt\` on a \`childThreadId\`.
-- If you are a subagent or child, do the work yourself. Start no subagents unless your task says to.`,
+- Follow a running delegate's \`next\`. Do not poll it (\`task_status\`, \`sleep\`, watchers, Monitor, ScheduleWakeup). Stop a delegate run you replace or no longer need with \`task_cancel\`, never \`t3_thread_interrupt\` on a \`childThreadId\`.`,
   `- \`t3_thread_launch\` and \`create_threads\` make new top-level threads, only when the user asks for a new thread. "Subagent", "delegate", and "parallel" never mean one. Worktree thread: set \`workspaceStrategy\`. Honor a requested base. Otherwise, independent work uses the default branch as \`remote/branch\` with \`startFromOrigin:true\`; with no remote, use the local default. Required unpublished commits and dependent work use their local base. Shell worktrees do not bind it, and no checkout setup in its prompt. No \`workspaceStrategy\`: project root, not your worktree.
 - Given a thread id, \`t3_thread_read\` it before you answer about it.
 - Another machine: \`t3_environment_links\` lists linked ones. Pass its \`environmentId\` to a T3 tool to act there. Ids are then that machine's, so pass \`threadId\`.