agent-operated-software

1# Agent-Operated Software
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3**Agent-Operated Software** is an ongoing application whose functioning runtime includes an OpenRig
4agent or rig in its live backend or control loop. The application surface can be thin: structured
5state and specialist roles do the work, while the UI makes that work legible and steerable.
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7## Start with the shared taxonomy
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9- **AI-enabled software:** application code owns the control loop and calls a model as one capability.
10- **Agent-Operated Workflow:** an agent owns one bounded procedure with a start and stop condition;
11  see `agent-operated-workflows`.
12- **Agent-Operated Software:** agents participate in an ongoing application's functioning runtime.
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14An application may compose many Agent-Operated Workflows. A bounded workflow does not by itself make
15its surrounding product Agent-Operated Software, and a model call is neither category unless an agent
16owns part of the control loop.
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18## Agents are part of the backend
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20In this architecture, behavior is not located only in functions. It is distributed across agents,
21skills, instructions, bootstrap files, schemas, Markdown, YAML, JSON, folders, and deterministic
22tools. A surprising result may therefore be a code defect or a coherence gap in this control plane.
23Trace the path that actually produced the behavior before choosing which layer to repair.
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25This is not permission to tolerate defects in OpenRig core or another rock-solid substrate. There,
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