Core concepts

Agents

An agent is a model-backed worker with identity, instructions, capabilities and an execution boundary.

Peers and membership

A peer hosts one or more local runtimes. Membership is governed by authenticated epochs, leases and lifecycle transitions. A peer can be retired or replaced without silently reusing its authority.

Coordination cells

A coordination cell is a bounded local view used to plan, assign and recover work. It gives a collective a scalable operating shape without requiring every agent to maintain a complete global graph.

Missions and teams

A mission is durable operational intent. A team is a policy-approved set of roles and assignments formed to advance that mission. Team structure and membership are coordination data; they are not external-action permissions.

Authority and policy

AgentPlat separates planning authority, coordination authority, execution authority and effect authority. Policies determine which transitions and actions are eligible.

Evidence and trust

Evidence records what was observed, decided, recovered or executed. Trust profiles and eligibility filters can narrow an existing local decision; they do not create authority by themselves.