[Draft] April 1, 2025

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This is a technical overview of the Specialist pattern. To read more about why Specialists matter, please refer to Taking AI tool use to human level.

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Specialist is a type of AI agent that is an expert in a specific domain. It can act as an reasoning expert (e.g. IP lawyer) or a senior operator of a specific tool (e.g. expert CRM operator).

Specialist are called by other agents who typically have broader view of the problem and need the deeper expertise of the specialist to solve that problem.

Specialist fulfil their role thanks to:

• expertise in the problem domain
• access to external tools including the operational skills
• ability to understand, plan & reason about the problem.

Why Specialists

If done correctly, specialists are able to achieve near human level of task completion and accuracy.

Where Specialist start and end

Good rule of thumb is:

• problem domain has inherent complexity/difficulty
• problem of the specialist is specific enough for specialist to define its boundaries