diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ It never runs on Claude's own initiative. There are three ways to start it:
   changes and include its verdict in your report.
   ```
 
-  A subagent cannot start another subagent or ask you a question, so inside
-  one the skill runs Codex alone as the second model and hands any
-  disagreement back to the main conversation instead of asking you.
+  A subagent cannot ask you a question, so inside one the skill hands any
+  disagreement back to the main conversation instead of asking you. It still
+  uses both advisors when the subagent is allowed to start one of its own.
+  When it is not, because its definition leaves out the `Agent` tool or it is
+  at Claude Code's nesting limit, the skill runs Codex alone.
 
 ## Data handling
 
diff --git a/skills/advise/SKILL.md b/skills/advise/SKILL.md
index 063c1ea..01c5e5a 100644
--- a/skills/advise/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/advise/SKILL.md
@@ -42,14 +42,16 @@ Never run it on every edit. Two runs per task is the whole budget.
 ### Inside a subagent
 
 When you are a subagent that was told to run this as a QA check, run the
-`done` checkpoint once, before you report back. A subagent cannot start
-another subagent or ask the user, so:
+`done` checkpoint once, before you report back. Two things differ there:
 
-- Skip the Fable advisor and run Codex alone. Report the Fable advisor as
+- A subagent has the `Agent` tool only when its definition allows it and it
+  is not at the nesting limit. If you have it, dispatch the Fable advisor as
+  usual. If you do not, run Codex alone and report the Fable advisor as
   skipped, not as failed.
-- Do not use `AskUserQuestion`. When Codex disagrees with your work on
-  anything that changes the verdict, put both positions in your report to the
-  parent and let it decide.
+- A subagent cannot ask the user, so do not use `AskUserQuestion`. When the
+  advisors disagree with your work, or with each other, on anything that
+  changes the verdict, put the positions in your report to the parent and let
+  it decide.
 
 ## Step 1: Write one shared brief