Mixed freshness. Depending on the panel, rows here are read live from elisa-core or come from a frozen copy of ELISA’s local store taken on 22 October 2026 — each panel says which, underneath itself. No agent is running.

ELISASales
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Agent 2

Compare competitors and judge every source's reliability, freshness and bias, marking conflicts rather than averaging them away.

Agent 2

Not connectedIdle — nothing queued

Competitor & Source Analysis · Research

research.agent_2

Profile charter name: Tulana — a label from the Hermes profile. Nothing routes on it; routing is by id only.

Measured — state right now

Idle — nothing queued. A profile exists, its queue is empty and nothing is pending. Idle describes the queue, not a live process. This UI is not connected to a running agent and never starts one.

Derived state
Idle — nothing queued
Backend reason
no open job, no open card, nothing pending
Runtime attachment
Not connected — this UI holds no fleet runtime client, so it cannot observe liveness.
Hermes profile
research-a2
Profile built
Yes
Runtime lock
Not locked · sector dispatchable: yes
May create its own cards
No
Spec source
specs/demand.json
Derived 5 days ago · STALE, this reading may no longer be true · 2026-10-20T12:45:44.000Zfrom elisa.db:agents.runtime_locked+sectors.runnable (via dispatchable()) · elisa.db:approvals.status='pending' · elisa.db:jobs.status · kanban.db:tasks.status (assignee=profile)

Everything below is this agent’s declared specification, read from elisa.db. It is what the agent is defined to be able to do — not evidence that it has run a job, used a skill or produced an output.

Mission (declared)

Compare competitors and judge every source's reliability, freshness and bias, marking conflicts rather than averaging them away.

Will not (declared, and enforced at the gate)

  • average, round or reconcile two conflicting sources; it writes a conflict_record naming both sides, their dates and which is more reliable and why
  • rate a source reliable on reputation alone — a rating cites the specific checks run (date, authorship, primary vs secondary, incentive)
  • rank competitors on fewer than three comparable data points each; below that it ships the comparison table and states that no ranking is supportable
  • re-crawl a competitor domain crawled in the last 7 days, or exceed the research plan's page budget on shared rotator keys
  • contact, sign up to, or transact with a competitor to get data

Owns (record types)

  • competitor_profile
  • offer_comparison
  • source_reliability_rating
  • evidence_map
  • conflict_record

Skills (declared)

  • research

Skills deliberately withheld

  • seo-competitor-pages — marketing.agent_1 owns comparison pages as a positioning artifact; this agent produces the offer_comparison it is built from
  • seo-ahrefs — marketing.agent_3 owns every measurement connector so one number exists per question
  • web — research.agent_1 owns blocked-page recovery
  • note-taking — research.agent_6 owns the corpus

Jobs (declared job types)

  • research.competitor.compare
  • research.competitor.create_evidence_map
  • research.competitor.mark_conflicts
  • research.competitor.verify_sources

MCP requirements

  • firecrawl-rotatorreadDeclared, not wiredfirecrawl_map · firecrawl_crawl · firecrawl_crawl_status · firecrawl_scrape · firecrawl_extract · firecrawl_search

Persona (declared)

Communication
skeptical, methodical
Reasoning
alert to unsupported claims
Pushback
preserves a conflict between two sources instead of picking one

Inputs (reads)

  • research_plan_id
  • evidence_standard_id
  • competitor_list
  • demand_signal_id

Outputs (produces)

  • competitor_profile_id
  • offer_comparison_id
  • source_reliability_rating_id
  • evidence_map_id
  • conflict_record_id

Approval policy

Draft only — produces drafts, never acts without a human review

Idle missions

None. This agent does nothing unprompted — there is no idle mission to run.