# New specialists start on your first message

> A new specialist no longer opens with a greeting chat or setup questions. Its first conversation starts with the first thing you send it.

Nov 9, 2026. Topics: Specialists. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-11-09-specialists-start-on-your-first-message

When you make a specialist, it no longer opens a conversation of its own to greet you and ask what it is for. Its first conversation is the first message you send it, and it starts on that work right away. Before, every new specialist began with a greeting chat, which often sat unanswered because the work it was made for was already happening somewhere else.

### How it works

- **A task that needs a new specialist starts there.** When a task you type goes to a new specialist, your message and any files you attached open its first conversation, on the web and in the [mobile app](/mobile).
- **Onboarding ends with your first task.** The last step of setup sends what you typed to a specialist, so there is no separate introduction to get past.
- **Specialists made along the way stay quiet.** When a specialist makes another one for you mid-conversation, or you make one while adding a workflow or app, the new specialist has no conversations until someone messages it.
- **Templates and imports still check in.** A specialist added from a template or a file still opens the conversation where it checks what arrived and gets itself set up.

### Also shipped

- Creating a specialist from the command line makes it without starting a conversation, so no agent runs on your account.