Specialists give you focused judgment on demand, and they need a brief that leaves no room to invent. Brief them like a capable colleague you just met. Name the sources, state the constraints, and define what done looks like. Then check the work before it becomes workspace truth. Open Bright →

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Pick the right kind

  • Built-in agents (Bright, Advisor, Worker, Designer, Engineer, Explorer, Product Manager, Researcher) cover common roles and bot capabilities. Use one for a quick point of view or a well-defined outcome. The roster and what each one owns is in Agents.
  • Custom agents are roles you define with stable instructions, decision boundaries, and escalation rules. Create them on Capabilities → Agents; see Build skills and named agents.
Type @ in the composer to mention either kind in a session.

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Brief with the grounding contract

Give a specialist room to think and no room to invent:
  1. Name the authoritative sources.
  2. Forbid facts that are not present in those sources.
  3. Require observed facts, inferences, proposals, and unknowns to be separated.
  4. Request citations to issue fields, document sections, or connected records.
  5. Set a tool budget and a stop condition.
  6. Keep writes off until a human accepts the analysis.

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Review before promotion

Before you copy a specialist’s response into a plan, issue, or document, verify every proper noun, URL, ticket identifier, dependency, metric, and technical component. Those details are where unsupported invention costs the most.

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Good to know

  • Neither kind of specialist removes approvals. Tool use still follows your mode and the approval prompts in chat (see Context, permissions, and safe operation).
  • Built-in specialists ship with Bright. Custom agents live on Capabilities → Agents, and @ in the composer reaches both.

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Next step

Decide when a specialist’s judgment is worth the stronger tier in Models and Genius mode.