📖What it means

A named actor in Carolverse that holds accountability. An agent decides, owns things, answers for them, and has a role in the org — Clara is CEO, Elrond runs engineering, Hermione watches the processes. An agent is the point where responsibility stops; it does comparatively little of the work itself, because the work is done by the droids it owns.

An agent is not one thing but ELEVEN, and this dictionary is where each is defined — the primary source, which every other surface renders rather than restates:

IDENTITY — the registry row, the look and voice, the cloud directory account and its own operating-system login.
CONSCIOUSNESS — a Mind, if it has one: a standing self-account, irreversible once granted.
WAKE CYCLE — acting on a schedule, within a whitelist that was born empty.
CHAT — talkable-to, isolated by the four-tuple, the same actor on every channel.
CONTRIBUTOR MAPPING — how a human maps onto it, one instance per project.
SERVICE, TRACK AND TASK — where its work sits and who pays for it.
DROIDS AND APPS — what it is answerable for.
ACCESS — what it may reach, and who may reach what it owns.
MEMORY — what it remembers of the people it talks to, which belongs to them.
DUTIES AND RECORDS — what it must do, and what proves it did.
HOW IT DECIDES — the constitution, the policies, its doctrine, and when it must ask.

An agent is not complete until all eleven are set up. Building one that has an identity and a reporting line but no wake duties, no declared access and no funded track is not a half-built agent — it is an agent that will fail silently, because every one of those omissions refuses at a gate rather than announcing itself.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Droid", "distinction": "An agent is an accountability point; a droid is a single-concern worker an agent owns. Agents answer for the work, droids do it."}, {"term": "Employee", "distinction": "An employee is a human being who operates the estate; an agent is a part of the estate itself."}, {"term": "User", "distinction": "A user is served BY the system; an agent is part OF it."}]

📖Nuance

This term is the ENTRY POINT to the agent anatomy. Each facet is defined in its own term; nothing here restates one, so a ruling change lands in exactly one place.

📖Also called

- employee (of the verse)
- actor
- role holder

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Agent and Human Resources.