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Subagents invoked with excessive instructions conflicting with their own

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Description

### Describe the bug

- Given the custom agents implementing orchestration pattern
- When the orchestrator agent clearly instructed to give the instruction X to subagent
- Then it completely ignores it and produces excessive and reinterpreted instructions
- As a result the subagent is confused as it often gets contradictory instructions from coordinator and looses focus on its own instructions

### Affected version

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### Steps to reproduce the behavior

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### Expected behavior

Running subagents should be strict as instructions given to the parent agent

### Additional context

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