Software Agent

CURIE: gmeow:SoftwareAgent
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/SoftwareAgent
Category: class
Defined by: gmeow:slices/entities
Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A software process or autonomous program that acts on behalf of a person or organization.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Agent

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:SoftwareAgent as a specialized kind of gmeow:Agent. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Agent Sortals

Source: slices/core/entities/examples/agent-sortals.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-entities-examples-agent-sortals

# --- SoftwareAgent: a process acting on behalf of an organization. Disjoint with
#     Person; the "acts on behalf of" delegation is a provenance-layer relation,
#     not subclassing.
ex:ciBot a gmeow:SoftwareAgent ;
    gmeow:name "blackcat-ci"@en ;
    gmeow:description "The CI build agent that runs Blackcat's release pipeline."@en .

Agent Trajectory

Source: slices/extensions/agentic/examples/agent-trajectory.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-agentic-examples-agent-trajectory

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .



ex:assistant a gmeow:SoftwareAgent ;
    rdfs:label "assistant model agent"@en .

ex:webSearch a gmeow:SoftwareAgent ;
    rdfs:label "web search tool"@en .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Projects To

Profile	External Targets
`schema-org`	`rdf`, `schema`

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Projection Coverage

Source	Kind	Profile	Predicate/Relation	Target	Evidence
`gmeow:SoftwareAgent`	projection	`schema-org`	projects to / <=	rdf:type, schema:Claim, schema:appearance, schema:author, schema:text	`gmeow:mapSchemaGeneratedClaim`; confidence 0.8; lossy: modality, veridicality, confidence, standpoint poset, and the reified statement content dropped; verdicts ride as per-review ClaimReview nodes (mapSchemaClaimReview) preserving the data's epistemic shape — attributed stays authored, anonymous stays anonymous, nothing computed; appearance only when the evidence spine is complete

Usage Advice

Use when

Use for a non-human actor — a software process, bot, model invocation, or autonomous program — that acts, authors, or bears provenance on behalf of a person or organization.

Avoid when

Avoid for a human actor (use gmeow:Person) and for a passive software artifact that carries content without acting (use gmeow:InformationObject or a software-document class); SoftwareAgent is disjoint with Person and Organization.

How to use

Type the actor as gmeow:SoftwareAgent and link it as the agent of its acts through provenance and contribution relators (e.g. the agentic slice's ModelInvocation idiom); attach a flat gmeow:name and its owning principal rather than the structured person-name apparatus.

Examples

ex:lillithBot a gmeow:SoftwareAgent; gmeow:name "Lillith"@en.