An entity whose objectives or authority another entity is appointed or permitted to pursue or exercise.
Uses principal in the agency sense, not as a loan amount, school official, or security principal.
Connections
Typed relationship: related_to
Where it helps
- Identify on whose behalf an agent is acting.
- Separate represented interests from the agent’s own identity.
- Explain how a mandate connects a principal with an acting agent.
Practical-use explanations are editorial examples, separate from the service’s definition.
Identity and history
- Concept identifier
- as:concept:principal
- Version identifier
- as:concept:principal@1.0.0-candidate.1
- Published
- October 22, 2026
- Version behavior
- Immutable. Changes require another version.
- Supersedes
- No earlier version listed
- Superseded by
- No later version listed
Rights and attribution
- Definition & metadata
- CC0-1.0
- Associated icon
- No associated icon
- Attribution
- AgentiScript
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