What is an agent in Context?
A named member of your organization with its own identity, instructions, model settings, skills, and connections.
An agent is a first-class principal in your organization, with its own identity and an organization role, the same way a person has one. It carries instructions, model settings, assigned skills, and the connections it may use. Selecting an agent selects that identity and those defaults; the live sandbox belongs to each task run, not to the agent.
Organization and workspace default instructions layer under the agent's own, so a team can set standing rules once and every agent working in that workspace follows them.
Written for people using context, it and security, developers. Last reviewed 2026-09-15.
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