📖What it means

A project user who works ON the project — a CURRENT employee, seen through one project. Contributors map to agents per project instance, and that mapping is what lets them operate an agent. An employee may be mapped to NO agents — that is a valid state, not an anomaly: they still wear the employee hat in conversation, and an agent they talk to knows they are an unmapped employee.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Consumer", "distinction": "A contributor works on the project; a consumer uses what the project provides."}, {"term": "Employee", "distinction": "The same current person: employee is the person-level word, contributor is that employee seen through one project instance."}]

📖Nuance

Ninad ruling 2026-09-08: contributor is a synonym of CURRENT employee — the earlier 'erstwhile/retired employee' framing is withdrawn.

📖Also called

- employee
- current employee
- project worker

📖Filed under

Category: user-model.

Service: Governance.