Specialists and available roles
A Specialist is a saved research role: identity, instructions and permitted Skills/Connectors. Use one when a recurring responsibility needs a consistent scope or a separate subtask. A role's name alone does not establish expertise or verification.
Understand the available roles
| Role or source | How it is used | What you can configure |
|---|---|---|
| Main Agent | Handles the conversation and can coordinate delegated work | Session model, agent controls and available capabilities |
| Custom Specialist | Created locally for a defined research task | Identity, instructions, explicit Skills/Connectors or Full access |
| Imported / Marketplace Specialist | Installed from a package, then configured on this device | Local setup and allowed capabilities; inspect publisher and package version |
| Built-in Reviewer | Performs the app's review workflow | Trigger review through the conversation; it is not a normal editable/delegatable Specialist |
Open Browse Marketplace to find published roles. The online catalog can change independently of your installed app. Inspect each role's publisher, instructions and dependencies before importing.
Find a role
Open Settings → Specialists. Installed counts the locally registered roles, including Reviewer. Use Search specialists and Filter specialists by category, then open a row to inspect it. Browse Marketplace opens a different catalog; a listed market entry is not installed until you complete its package/setup flow.
Marketplace roles observed
| Role | Intended research scope |
|---|---|
| Auto Research Specialist | Biomedical evidence, analysis, validation and writing |
| Cryo-EM Structure Validation Specialist | Half-map, geometry and map-model validation planning |
| Pharmacometrics PK/PD Design Specialist | PK/PD research-design and uncertainty checks |
| Multimodal Neuroimaging Connectomics Architect | MRI/fMRI/diffusion workflows and network-analysis controls |
| Synthetic Route and Reaction Optimization Specialist | Reaction-planning and optimization evidence |
| Aerodynamics CFD Verification and Validation Specialist | Numerical convergence and experimental-comparison planning |
| Atmospheric Chemistry Transport Modeling Specialist | Emissions, transport and source-attribution studies |
| High-throughput DFT Screening Specialist | Convergence and thermodynamic-consistency checks |
| Astronomical Photometry and Time-domain Analysis Specialist | Calibration, photometry and variability analyses |
| Precision Agriculture Phenotyping and Prescription Design Specialist | UAV phenotyping and spatial-validation workflows |
These are observed catalog descriptions, not evidence of ten completed scientific workflows. The product's Reviewer is also different from the custom RNA-seq QC Reviewer used in these chapters.
Choose a route
- Create and instruct: define a local research role.
- Assign capabilities: determine what it can use.
- Delegate and verify: inspect an actual child run and its evidence.
- Reviewer and Auto-review: use the app's built-in review process.
- Manage and share: package, import, resolve conflicts and finish local setup.
Implementation reference: manifest.json, SpecialistsPanel.tsx.