feat(delegation): bump default child_timeout_seconds to 600s (#14809)

The 300s default was too tight for high-reasoning models on non-trivial
delegated tasks — e.g. gpt-5.5 xhigh reviewing 12 files would burn >5min
on reasoning tokens before issuing its first tool call, tripping the
hard wall-clock timeout with 0 api_calls logged.

- tools/delegate_tool.py: DEFAULT_CHILD_TIMEOUT 300 -> 600
- hermes_cli/config.py: surface delegation.child_timeout_seconds in
  DEFAULT_CONFIG so it's discoverable (previously the key was read by
  _get_child_timeout() but absent from the default config schema)

Users can still override via config.yaml delegation.child_timeout_seconds
or DELEGATION_CHILD_TIMEOUT_SECONDS env var (floor 30s, no ceiling).
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@ -739,6 +739,10 @@ DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
"inherit_mcp_toolsets": True,
"max_iterations": 50, # per-subagent iteration cap (each subagent gets its own budget,
# independent of the parent's max_iterations)
"child_timeout_seconds": 600, # wall-clock timeout for each child agent (floor 30s,
# no ceiling). High-reasoning models on large tasks
# (e.g. gpt-5.5 xhigh, opus-4.6) need generous budgets;
# raise if children time out before producing output.
"reasoning_effort": "", # reasoning effort for subagents: "xhigh", "high", "medium",
# "low", "minimal", "none" (empty = inherit parent's level)
"max_concurrent_children": 3, # max parallel children per batch; floor of 1 enforced, no ceiling