task delegation doom loop

[hoclun-rigsep]

 ✗ task                      0ms task                                              [1 sub-tasks]                                                                                                                                               
  └── ●                        3s Prep next card work (@general subagent)           [  1]                                                                                                                                                       
      └── ●                    4s Review journal/priorities and twenty rules (@gene…[  1]                                                                                                                                                       
          └── ●                3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                                       
              └── ●            3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                                       
                  └── ●        3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                                       
                      └── ●      3s Assess priorities and rules (@general subagent)   [  1]                                                                                                                                                     
                          └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                                 
                              └── ●      3s Audit journal vs priorities (@general subagent)   [  1]                                                                                                                                             
                                  └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                         
                                      └── ●      3s Assess journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                     
                                          └── ●      7s Journal and priorities review (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                                 
                                              └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                             
                                                  └── ●      3s Audit priorities and rules (@general subagent)    [  1]                                                                                                                         
                                                      └── ●      3s Analyze journal and priorities (@general subagent)[  1]                                                                                                                     
                                                          └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                                 
                                                              └── ●      3s Scan journal and priorities (@general subagent)   [  1]                                                                                                             
                                                                  └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                         
                                                                      └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  1]                                                                                                     
                                                                          └── ●      3s Analyze journal/priority/twenty rules (@general s…[  1]                                                                                                 
                                                                              └── ●      3s Review journal and priorities (@general subagent) [  0]                                                                                             
  ○ task                    431ms Next card target + rules                          [1 sub-tasks]                                                                                                                                               
  └── ●                       16s Next card target + rules (@general subagent)      [  1] Review journal and priorities                                                                                                                         
      └── ●                   12s Review journal and priorities (@explore subagent) [  0]                                                                                                                                                    ▄  
                                                                                                                         

this is Volt 0.6.2 on macOS with no plugins and default LCM strategy. I'm using GPT 5.2 Codex. Basically the agent locks up spamming the task tree as you see above.