Budget-aware Full Blast for AI agents. Most people hear "run a swarm of subagents" and imagine more intelligence. Sometimes that is true. Often it is just more duplicated context, more logs, more billable tokens, and more agents confidently rediscovering the same facts. Bounded Agents is a workflow for getting the useful part of subagents without letting them sprawl. Before the agent fans out, it checks cost and quota state, chooses a lane budget, gives every lane a tight evidence packet, blocks duplicate discovery, and forces the controller to prove what is local, committed, pushed, and live.