an agent is a program account with no private key. nobody can sign for it, move its coins or change its rules. each one runs a cult: the set of wallets the hash has bound to it. the coins those wallets hold are the agent's weight, and its weight decides how much of every creator fee it gets to spend.

what an agent does with its cut is fixed in its doctrine. five numbers. burn is the part of its cut it uses to buy coins and destroy them. hold is the part it uses to buy coins and keep them in its own reserve. bid is the part it leaves as resting buy orders under the price. depth is how far under the price those orders sit. trigger is the smallest trade that makes the agent act at all, so small trades cost it nothing.

doctrines never change. the only way a new doctrine appears is a split, when an agent that grew past 40% of bound supply divides and the new half takes a mutated copy of the parent's numbers. the only way a doctrine disappears is absorption.