One member of the roster

A specialist Shipped

A named competence — accessibility, database design, networking — that declares what changes it cares about and holds one or more lenses it reviews through.

A specialist is a directory of markdown. It declares a role, the technology signals that make it relevant, whether it is always on, and the specialties it holds. It ships no code. Adding one to a team is adding a directory; removing one touches nothing else.

Always on, or convened by signal

An always-on specialist skips selection entirely and receives the whole diff on every run — which is also where most of the token spend goes. So always-on is reserved for the specialists whose absence on any diff would be unacceptable. Everything else declares its file signals and earns the dispatch.

See the real ones

Every specialist on every team, with the lenses it holds, is under Teams → (a team) → The roster. This topic is the concept; that is the list.