Agent Deadline

Installer/configurator skill. It wires two self-contained hooks (PreToolUse guard + SubagentStop cleanup) that put a SOFT wall-clock budget on every subagent — or configures/removes them. All runtime behavior lives in the hook files and in a JSON config; this skill only decides mode, scope and budget, then delegates the file work to the brewcode:hook-creator agent following the runbook.

Claude Code has no wall-clock timeout for subagents. maxTurns stops a run at its turn cap; since 2.1.246 the caller receives a partial-marked result with a continuation hint, while unwritten analysis remains unrecoverable. These hooks kill nothing: at 80% of the budget the agent gets one non-blocking "wrap up" directive; past 100% every tool except the finalization set is denied, directing the agent to finish its report while finalization tools remain available.

Prompt contract

Treat $ARGUMENTS as a free-form RU/EN prompt. Modes/flags may appear anywhere; infer mode and scope from prose.

1. Strip flags. An explicit mode token anywhere wins outright, no scoring.
2. Else score modes by distinct whole-word keyword hits (table in Step 2). Highest unique score wins. Tie with a destructive mode (purge) -> AskUserQuestion; tie with status -> status; tie of two mutating modes -> the keyword appearing first; all zero -> status.
3. Empty arguments -> status; ask ONE scoping AskUserQuestion only when the answer changes what gets written. A read-only run asks nothing.
4. Outcome-changing ambiguity -> ONE AskUserQuestion (max 4 questions) BEFORE any work.
5. Prose that is not a mode/id/path is still input: extract the id, path or target from it.