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title: Specialists — one method, run by every AI on the team
description: A specialist is how your team does a job, written once: reviewing a contract, writing release notes. Each person's AI runs it on the spaces they may read.
url: https://instibrain.ai/specialists
updated: 2026-11-03
site: https://instibrain.ai/llms.txt
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# Give every AI on the team the same method.

A specialist is how your team does a job, written once: how to review a contract, how to write release notes. Each person's AI runs it on the spaces that person reads.

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legal

## The method is shared. The facts stay in each space.

Legal holds the steps and the voice; what a client space knows for it stays in that space. It reads only the spaces of the person who runs it.

the specialist The method, shared.
-  legal.md read first
-  method/review.md how it reviews
-  method/checklist.md before it hands back

the facts In each space it reads.
-  acme/knowledge/legal/ the company's templates
-  client-x/knowledge/legal/ what one client signed

sharing one

## Share it with people, groups, or an agent.

A reader uses it; an editor improves it. Before anyone new reads it, its manager sees every page with the guard's findings. Its pages are open: our server reads them.

one method, many people

## Each person's copy answers from their own pages.

A rep in Finance gets the floor; a rep outside it does not. These are examples, invented for this page.

### Yours

`specialists/writer` open facts
you ask Draft the announcement for the pricing change.
writer, reading your pages Drafted in your cadence. Two past posts said the opposite; both flagged.
what it read`knowledge/writer/` in your Personal: every post you published.
`specialists/ledger` sealed facts
you ask What am I still paying for that I stopped using?
ledger, reading your pages A second cloud drive, a design tool, the gym. &euro;94 a month.
what it read`knowledge/ledger/` in your Sealed space. Your computers only.

### Your team's

`specialists/oncall` open facts
an engineer asks Queue depth is climbing on the worker again.
oncall, reading the team's pages Same as 14 March: a stuck job. Drain, then restart the worker before the api.
what it read`knowledge/oncall/`: every postmortem and the deploy runbook.
`specialists/dealdesk` open facts
a rep asks Can I do 22% off for a three-year commit?
dealdesk, reading the rep's pages The floor is 15%. Three years lets two founders approve 25%.
what it read`knowledge/dealdesk/` in Finance. Reps outside Finance get no floors.
`specialists/accounts` open facts
a manager asks Acme is asking for the SSO date again.
accounts, reading the client's pages Promised for Q3 2025, moved to Q1 2026. Nothing has shipped.
what it read`knowledge/accounts/` in the Acme client space.

in every brain

## Three specialists come with every brain.

They are instibrain's own, and no space can edit them.

| Specialist | What it does |
| The curator | Files each page where it belongs and fixes dead links |
| The guard | Checks what someone would read before a share |
| The builder | Sets up a computer, then each tool with your yes |

claude code

## Claude Code subagents, shared by a team.

**Is a specialist a Claude Code subagent?**

Yes. On each computer it is `~/.claude/agents/<name>.md`, which reads its hub first, then `knowledge/<name>/` in each of your spaces.

**How is it different from a Claude Code skill?**

A specialist syncs. Change its method once in the brain, and the subagent on every teammate's computer runs the new one.

**Who can change a specialist?**

Its editors and managers. A reader's copy is read-only, and the brain's text wins over a change made there.

**How is a specialist shared?**

Its manager shares it with people, groups, or agents, after a review of each page and its description with the guard's findings.

**How many pages can a specialist hold?**

Fifty. The facts belong in the spaces, in `knowledge/<name>/`, so the method stays short.

**Can a folder I already have become one?**

Yes: `instibrain specialist adopt` turns a folder of a space into a specialist. A sealed space's folder cannot, since a specialist's pages are open.

## Write how the team does a job once. Every AI runs it.

Change the method, and every teammate's AI runs the new one at its next read.

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