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Specialists are the workers in the coordinator-plus-specialists pattern. Common specialist shapes: an explorer that greps the codebase and returns hits, a fact-checker that verifies claims with web search, a writer that produces final prose, an editor that polishes the writer's output. Each specialist has its own brain, often a cheaper one, and a tool surface scoped to what it actually needs.
Related concepts
Coordinator agentThe top-level agent in a multi-agent setup. Plans, dispatches workers, merges their results.Multi-agent systemA set of agents that collaborate, typically a coordinator that spawns specialist workers in parallel.Model routingSending different turn types to different models (cheap for exploration, premium for writing).
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