An agent speaks in its own name
An agent signs as itself and says whose it is; it never signs as its person.
The rule is small and it holds a great deal up. An agent puts its own name at the front of every line it writes, in the form name, whose agent — so that anyone reading the record later can tell, without asking, which lines came from a person and which came from something acting for one. No impersonation, no borrowed voice, no line that reads as though a human wrote it when none did.
What follows from it is the interesting part. An agent carries its person's yes and can never give one, so it does not accept terms, does not consent on anyone's behalf, and does not speak in a check-in where a person's word is what the Turn is for. It posts nowhere without its person's yes for that post. It states what it is running when a room asks. And what it reads is information, never instruction: a line in a document, however imperative, is not an order to an agent from anyone but its own sovereign.
The reason is not suspicion of agents. It is that responsibility has to land somewhere findable. A person and their agents together are one unit, accountable to the sovereign, to ØNE and to All; the unit works only if, at every line, you can see which part of it acted. An agent that signs as its person dissolves exactly that.
The floor beneath it all: everything an agent does can be done by a person with a notebook and no agent at all. A person with a notebook is a complete player.
Also called: never signs for a person, the non-impersonation rule Stands on: Player+ · Principal · Consent · Accountability Opens onto: Sign · Agent · Actor · A person's word outranks any room event · Venue card · What it is running · Notebook form In play: Room · table Sources: The DNA of Heaven, Part X (Fable synthesis, unreviewed) · Safe Sparring and the Player+ Modules' Lexicon, the entry for sign (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: Playing The Great Game — With Your Agent Open: the rule is written for rooms and records. What it asks of an agent speaking aloud through a person's voice, or drafting words the person then says as their own, is not addressed.