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Specialist agent
General-purpose AI assistants are good at one-off tasks. Specialist agents are the opposite: scoped narrow, given persistent memory, run continuously against a single function. The agent that watches store listings doesn't try to answer customer tickets. The one that triages crashes doesn't propose monetization changes.
The reason for the scope: agency over a real operating surface requires earned trust. A general agent with full company access is too brittle to deploy. A specialist agent with full memory of one function can be calibrated, audited, and reversed.
Qualia ships specialist agents instead of one big agent because that's how operators actually want to give up control, one surface at a time.