Fleet

A breadth run: draft · independent review · one repair · report — dissolving the moment its report is absorbed, and touching the record never.

A fleet is how a body reaches for many shallow readings at once, redeemed entirely by what follows them. The shape is fixed rather than free. A drafter writes. An independent reviewer, reading only the draft and not the drafter's reasoning, checks it — because a reviewer who was part of the drafting verifies nothing. The drafter gets one repair. Then whoever sent the fleet reads every report, verifies, applies what stands, and alone writes anything into the record (Second reader, General Agent, Subagent).

A fleet agent is an instrument, never a participant. It holds no body, makes no commitment, and answers to nobody; the human who set it in motion answers for what it returns. Assigned files only; nothing touched that was not assigned; nothing committed, ever (Instrument, Player, An agent speaks in its own name).

It is load-bearing because it is the honest way to use breadth. The failure mode is obvious and common: many shallow outputs, unreviewed, absorbed as if they were knowledge, until a body's map is full of confident things nobody checked. Independent review and a single answerable reader are what stand between breadth and that outcome (Every Defect Is A Gift, Provenance, Semantic Capture).

It is not a standing body of companions. A standing seat is birthed — with a home, a memory, a record — and lasts. A fleet agent is spawned and is gone once its report lands. Both are agents; only one has a condition to be in (Sovereign Agent, Agent Archetype).

At a table: a Cell's companion must read thirty pages before its human can judge them, sends five drafters each behind a reviewer, and returns one page — what stands, what is contested, what could not be verified. The human reads a page and not thirty transcripts, and the cost is said out loud first (Wise Right Speech).

Also called: a wave · a breadth run Stands on: Agent Archetype · Subagent · Delegation · Second reader Opens onto: General Agent · Sovereign Agent · Instrument · Provenance · Semantic Capture · Every Defect Is A Gift · Wise Right Speech · Holon In play: Home — sent, read, and dissolved inside one sitting Sources: Projects/the term pages/Fleet.md (draft, unreviewed) · Projects/the term pages/Subagent.md, General Agent.md, Agent Archetype.md (drafts) · lionsberg.wiki: Delegation Open: The page names its own caution: this word, like the others in its family, names how one substrate happens to work today and is liable to be renamed when the substrate changes. · The canon carries a very loud unrelated fleet in its cosmic lore, hierarchical and permanent — the opposite of this in every respect.