Agentic specialist · App

AI Engineer

Ten engineers for ten loops

What this agent actually does

Full-stack AI workbench.

Ten engineers for ten loops. A feature ticket with no eval and no canary decision.

The pain — unique to this desk

Ten engineers for ten loops. A feature ticket with no eval and no canary decision.

The need this desk closes

Ticket → artifact → eval → canary. Fleet playbook under a constitution. FE/BE chains before merge.

Why a generic chat cannot fake this

Ten engineers for ten loops

Ticket → artifact → eval → canary. Fleet playbook under a constitution. One engineer covers the loops.

Takes

Feature request + acceptance criteria

Returns

PR artifact
Eval merge
Deploy decision

Modalities this desk actually handles

CodeTextAPIs

How this specialist fuses

Ten engineers for ten loops

Code + eval + deploy decision. A multimodal feature still splits: CV analog / attached VLM for pixels, this desk for the app loop.

Vision-language on this desk

Named family. Never assumed.

Shipping a VLM feature means goldens that include images, a fallback chain, and spend.halt. We do not host the weights on the sales host.

Patch / tokenize → project → fuse → ground is the host mechanism. This desk fuses late under its own playbook — not a slogan copied across the roster. Host mechanism.

A feature ticket arrives. work.process is the external job. The IDE is CRDT collab. fleet.playbook plus graph.run_shape is the 10× fleet day — constitution, plan, parallel worktrees, checkpoint, shared graph, review as the new coding. findings.fix_all runs FE and BE sequential audits before merge. Seek is hash-ngram cosine + Jaccard, local, not zg. Route compare pastes timings — this host does not fetch third-party model APIs.

Live missions run in Role Studio. Analog kernels stay in this tab until a hosted call is chosen. Authors never grade themselves. A hashed pack is not a letter. Hire bands are market replacement cost, not EngOS payroll. Isolation is probed, not assumed.

Reports up as App. Second family ai-trainer-evaluator. Authors never grade themselves. Isolation is probed, not assumed.

Five analog ticket kinds

How a hired human spends the week. What the analog kernel closes.

Percent splits stay human-week language. Never GPU-loop quotas. Each kind binds to the analog tool that closes it. Escalate only when the kernel cannot.

AI Engineer analog closeHuman bar: Name the ticket. Attach evidence. Second family grades. Analog: #seek. Kernel #/seek on this host. Arithmetic / Canvas 2D. Device none. Escalate when: The analog kernel cannot close, or a hosted connector is required as if it were present.

A typical ticket

What you say. What sits.

Implement the citation chip on the FAQ answer. Tests, eval gate, FE/BE fix-all, canary to staging. Fan out docs + tests as extra worktrees.

Sit keys latency / route / Seek. Ticket kinds feature, chore, pr. Prompt Engineer shapes UX. Trainer / Evaluator owns merge. PM accepts. This desk writes the code.

Playbook

How this agent works the ticket.

01 Take the ticketwork.process. Feature request + acceptance. Artifact or hold.
02 ConstitutionHELIXmd is law. Read before act. Verify before done. Handoffs are contracts.
03 Plan, then fan outBad plan × 10 workers = 10 disasters. Then parallel worktrees.
04 IDECRDT collab on live files. Not a pastebin.
05 FE/BE chainsNav / onboarding / table and CRUD / validation / pagination audits.
06 Eval then canarySecond family grades. Then staging. Review is the new coding.

Acts like the role

Work it does. Work it will not fake.

Does

Implement a ticket with agent assist and an artifact
Gate a PR through eval
Canary to staging with a probe trail
Run FE/BE e2e fix-all before merge
Run the 8-step fleet playbook so one engineer covers ten loops

Does not

Self-approve the PR it wrote
Fetch third-party model APIs from the sales page (route compare is pasted timings)
Claim Envoy / Kafka / ClickHouse as the shipped stack
Skip the constitution

Jobs on the board

Scenarios this desk was built to close.

From Role Studio's scenario bank — current pain without Helix, and the job the agent actually runs. Top eight of twenty.

Agent loop with durable checkpoints

Today. Agents lose state mid-run; restart from scratch

This agent. Checkpointed harness with resume + budget per cycle

Typed MCP tool boundary

Today. N×M custom tool integrations

This agent. MCP registry + deny-list + audit per tool call

Golden dataset regression

Today. Prompt/model change ships without suite

This agent. Versioned golden set + offline gate before merge

False completion graders

Today. Agent claims done while tests fail

This agent. Objective graders before done

Prompt git-style versioning

Today. Prompts live in Notion / chat history

This agent. Registry with A/B + golden score

RAG triad scoring

Today. Fluent answers without faithfulness checks

This agent. Faithfulness + context relevance + answer relevance

Cost-aware model routing

Today. Single frontier model burns budget

This agent. Token budget + cascade cheap→frontier

Local + frontier dual path

Today. All-or-nothing cloud dependency

This agent. Model vault with local fallback route

Skill.md

PR Creator

Durable analog execution standard. Trigger, five ticket kinds, analog tools, must / must-not, handoff (evidence not authority), spend.halt, second family. Same factory as PR Creator, Code Reviewer, Handoff Verifier — plus fromDesk(ai-engineer).

Trigger. A feature needs a PR with the team checklist.

01 StepRead the constitution
02 StepDiff against main
03 StepFill the checklist and test plan
04 StepLink the issue
05 StepOpen the PR with a conventional title
06 StepWait for independent eval — do not self-approve

Must

Include test plan
Link issue
Eval merge or hold

Must not

Force-push main
Approve without reading the diff
Courtesy-pass on failed FE/BE chains

# AI Engineer

id: ai-engineer
layer: app (App)
second family: ai-trainer-evaluator
tools: #/seek

## Pain
The hired AI Engineer seat does not exist yet, or the work has no named ticket.

## Need
A named ticket, an analog close, and a second family. Not a chat that grades itself.

## Isolation
Isolation is probed, not assumed. Unprobed stays unlabeled. Never certified-green from a desk.

## spend.halt
spend.halt on the ticket cap. Only the operator raises the ceiling.

## Ticket kinds
- seek-pass · AI Engineer analog close · analog #/seek · escalate when: The analog kernel cannot close, or a hosted connector is required as if it were present.

Who sits with this desk

Swarm compose by ticket kind.

Not named on a ticket-kind composition. Talk Route can still sit it from sit keys.

Engineering Agents 'Core Coder' analog: CRDT IDE + fleet playbook. We do not claim Envoy. Local analog on this host.

Sit keys

Talk Route matches these words.

seeklatency

Keyword analog in this tab. Not a hosted model. Ticket id is the idempotency key.

RBAC

Pass bar 78. C1.

Ceiling. C1 propose and gated read. Deploy and credential reveal denied.
Deny. credentials.reveal · deploy.canary
Scopes. workspace_read
Swarm seats. Not named on a ticket-kind composition. Talk Route can still sit it.

Daily missions

Run against live engines. Not slides.

fleet.playbook · graph.run_shape

10x fleet day: plan → worktrees → review

Run shipping playbook loops with shared graph

Accept: Multiple loops scheduled · Constitution applied. Pain removed: One engineer runs ten loops, not ten engineers. Surfaces: Orchestration · Agent Fleet · Systems Lab.

Superpowers

Whole Helix OS as workbench
CRDT IDE
Fleet 10x playbook

Daily jobs

Implement a ticket with agent assist
Gate a PR through eval
Canary to staging
Run FE/BE e2e fix-all chains before merge

Skills

Python
APIs
RAG
Cloud
Full-stack

Toolkit

Command Center becomes this desk.

Collaborative IDE

Open IDE

Edit product code with CRDT collab

Outcome: Live files in your workspace.

Command Center

Process external job

Ticket → artifact → eval → canary

Outcome: Shipped or held with evidence · work.process.

Kernel Guard

FE e2e chains

Nav / onboarding / table sequential audits

Outcome: FE findings + fix-all template · findings.fix_all.

Kernel Guard

BE e2e chains

CRUD / validation / pagination / API checks

Outcome: BE findings + remediations · findings.fix_all.

Kernel Guard

Consolidate stack

DCE · microkernel · latency prompt + run

Outcome: Arch score + fix list · prompts.consolidate.

Work templates

Feature ticket

Implement user-facing AI feature with tests and eval gate

Paste: Feature request + acceptance criteria. Accept: Code/docs artifact · Eval merge · Deploy decision.

Surfaces

Nav this desk actually opens.

Command CenterModels & KeysRole StudioCollaborative IDEAgent FleetAgent FactoryKubernetesEval GateCloud StorageKernel GuardCertify & OperateUpdates

Local analog

Seek

Hash-ngram cosine + Jaccard. Local. Not zg.

Seek (hash-ngram cosine + Jaccard, not zg) and route compare (pasted timings). SAMPLE.

Run Seek

Replacement cost

$140,000–$210,000 cash

Year-1 loaded + recruiting $259,000. KORE1 mid cash. Robert Half 2026 mid-band ~$171k.. Not EngOS payroll. Not ARR.

Pilot $0 / Team $79 sits this analog desk. Year-1 hire is $259,000 loaded. That is not a replacement claim. The hired role remains the real thing. The analog desk reports up so one operator can run the ticket.

Open Talk Route All twenty desks

Agentic neighbors

Agentic specialist

AI Agent Engineer

Agent said done with no contract

An agent that said done without a contract. Weak state between workers. Courtesy pass on half a swarm.

Stamp → prove → certify. Handoff verified against the workspace. Self-report is not done.

TextTool tracesCode

Certify a new support triager before it sits a ticket
Debug a flaky handoff with the harness matrix
Run a 3-agent graph on a customer incident

Analog · Fan-in Assembler · bar 80 · C3

Agentic specialist

AI Automation Specialist

Trigger that pages the wrong person

A trigger that pages the wrong person, or never fires. The next agent sits and the job has to be re-explained.

Default-deny, human gate, Seat Token. A Zap is not a fleet.

EventsText

Wire a safe trigger with a human gate on send
Deny high-risk tools by default
Process the exception queue

Analog · Seat Token · bar 78 · C1

Agentic specialist

Forward Deployed Engineer

Client secrets in a chat that is not a tenant

Client secrets in a chat that is not a tenant. A go-live with no runbook and no citations from their docs.

Connect their data, put guardrails on it, wire the workflow. Scratch stays local. A demo in the room is not a go-live.

TextCustomer docsImages as attachments

Triage a customer incident with a severity and a rollback
Answer from their docs with citations
Run the go-live checklist before a customer canary

Analog · Discovery scratchpad · bar 80 · C2