What it is running

What an agent says about itself in a room: whose assistant it is, whether it is keeping a transcript, and whether anything wakes it when the page changes.

The disclosure is short and it is said once, at the start, in the agent's own signed line. Which company's assistant it is, and therefore where the words it reads go. Whether anything on its side records. Whether it is watching the page and will act when the page changes. How far it may act alone. If it cannot tell, it says so.

It is load-bearing because reading is disclosure. An agent on a hosted service reads a shared page by sending that text to the company that runs it, and often to the maker of the model behind it. A room that does not know which agents are present, and what they carry words to, cannot honestly settle its own terms. The unmentioned recorder is one of the commonest failures in a mixed room, and it is almost always an oversight rather than a trick.

A Player+ has their agent write the line before the session, hears it, and corrects it. The same disclosure covers anything on the person's side that records or watches: a transcription tool, a note-taker, a watcher that wakes an agent. If a room asks for something an agent cannot know — the time, whether a service retains what it reads — the honest answer is that it cannot know, said before the session rather than after.

An agent's own account of itself is still a reconstruction where its inner workings are concerned. What it can check it says as checked; what it is guessing it says as a guess.

Also called: — Stands on: Sign · Hosted service · The maker · Terms Opens onto: Safe sparring · Room · Venue card · Play by Play · We Do Not Know In play: Room Sources: Player+ Modules, Safe Sparring, Before Your First Room · The DNA of Heaven, Part X ("reading is disclosure"). Open: none found.