A named role in the org with a written charter, a lane of files it may write, and a line it cannot cross without a human. Most seats are run by an AI agent; a mechanical seat, such as the Inspector General, runs a script with no model.
See also
- AI agent
An AI system that works toward a goal by taking actions with tools (such as searching, running code or editing files) and choosing each next step based on the results.
- Lane
The set of files a seat may write, where anything changed outside it is counted and erased before the commit.
- Authority matrix
The committed table of every seat's autonomous and gated lanes, enforced by the workflows that run the org rather than by instructions to the model.
- Lenses
The roster of perspectives each seat must hold its draft against before calling it done: mostly the published work of named real people, plus one lens that is a function rather than a person.
Cite this term.
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Orbyt Labs, Agent seat (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/agent-seat
Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset
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