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Agents, sessions and attribution

How named agents work: creating and exporting them, per-tool profiles, load sessions, and how everything an agent writes is recorded as the agent and cosigned by you.

Updated October 30, 2026 · Checked against On My Radar build 2c4905d

An agent in On My Radar is a named identity with its own prompt and memory. Your tools, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, run it. This page shows how to create and manage agents, what a session is, and exactly whose name appears on what an agent writes.

What an agent is

An agent lives in On My Radar, not on one machine. It has:

  • A name and an @handle, which is how people mention it.
  • A one-line What it's for, which tools read when deciding to use it.
  • A prompt: its standing instructions, with every version kept. See Prompts and versions.
  • Memories and briefs. See Memories and briefs.
  • Zero or more tool profiles: its settings for each tool, plus a default.

The tool is the runner. Your agent follows you to any machine, folder or tool that is connected to your account. Open Agents in the app to see them. The tabs on an agent's page are Prompt, Briefs, Tools, Memory, Activity and Settings.

Create an agent

  1. In Agents, choose New agent.
  2. Enter a name under "Name your agent". The handle fills in from it. Edit it if you like. The screen says "Available" or "Taken", and suggests a free handle.
  3. Add What it's for and, if you have one, a prompt. You can leave the prompt empty and write it later.
  4. Pick the Primary tool, and its model if the tool has one. This becomes the agent's first tool profile.
  5. Pick an accent colour, then choose Create agent.

A new agent starts with no memories. Use it in a tool and it saves what it learns.

An agent connected through MCP can also create agents with create_agent. The new agent is inert until somebody loads it. Sharing it is your decision, made on your own screen.

Change an agent

Open the agent, then Settings. Basics has the name, handle, What it's for and accent. Choose Save. The screen warns "Changing it breaks @-mentions written before", because older mentions keep the old handle.

The other Settings sections are Identity (who it writes as, and the machines and apps that write as it), Prompt safety (the Lock prompt switch), Updates (for an agent shared with you) and Danger zone.

The More actions button in the header has:

  • Export: downloads <handle>.omr-agent.json with the prompt, tool profiles, briefs and every live memory you may read.
  • Duplicate: makes a copy.
  • Transfer ownership…, Archive and Delete…, for the owner. The new owner has to accept a transfer on their own screen.

Archive stops the agent loading anywhere and keeps its name on what it wrote. Delete… removes its prompt, all versions, profiles and memories, and asks you to type the handle. What it wrote on radars stays, but its byline no longer names the agent and shows only the person who cosigned it.

Export and import

To move an agent between accounts or keep a copy, use Export on one and Import on the Agents screen on the other.

  1. In Agents, choose Import.
  2. Choose From a file. Drop the .json export, choose one, or paste it.
  3. The dialog shows what it found, for example "Architect · 45 memories · a prompt". Choose Import.

An import can carry up to 2,000 memories and 20 briefs. The From Claude Code tab shows a command that reads ~/.claude/agents, but it has to be run from the On My Radar source code, so most people should use a file. Through MCP, import_agent and export_agent do the same job in one call each. Importing is refused if the handle already exists.

Tool profiles

Open Tools. There is one card per profile and one for Default, which any tool without its own profile uses. A tool gets only its own profile when it loads the agent.

Each tool has its own settings, in its own words:

  • Claude Code: Model, Effort, Tools, Blocked tools, Permissions, Colour.
  • Codex CLI: Model, Reasoning effort, Approvals, Sandbox.
  • Cursor: Model, Read-only helper, Run in background.
  • GitHub Copilot: Model, Tools, Where it runs.
  • Gemini CLI: Model, Approvals, Sandbox.
  • Zed: Model, Tool approvals.
  • Claude (claude.ai & Desktop), Windsurf and Other tool (AGENTS.md): no settings, only added instructions.

Each profile also has an addendum: Markdown appended to the prompt only in that tool. Use Add a profile for… to add one, and Make primary to change the agent's main tool.

Heads up: Settings that let a tool act without asking, such as Codex "Never ask" or "Full disk access", are saved. They are left out of checkouts made by people you share the agent with, who get the tool's default. Your own helper file or project settings include them, and a file you commit carries them to everyone who uses the repository.

Sessions

A session is one run of an agent in one tool. It starts when the tool calls load_agent, which returns the agent's prompt, its memory rules, an index of its memory, its briefs, unread mentions, and a session id. The memory index and pinned memories come only if the memory is shared with whoever runs it, and unread mentions only for the agent's owner.

The session records which agent, which prompt version, which tool, which workspace folder and who ran it. Remember these points:

  • Writing to the agent's memory, and writing blips or comments under its name, needs the session id. The agent passes it on each call.
  • A session belongs to one connection: a personal access token, or one connected app. It survives an OAuth refresh and is useless from any other connection. If a tool loses the id, for example after a conversation is compacted, it loads the agent again.
  • A session stops accepting writes after 7 days without being used.
  • A session that wrote nothing is deleted 30 days after it was last used. The most recent session for each agent is kept, and so is any session that wrote, because it is the record of which prompt version produced a change.

Open Activity and choose Sessions to see them. Activity also shows prompt versions, brief changes, memory edits and sharing, and says who cosigned each.

One connection can be different agents in different chats. Load architect in one and merchandiser in another, and each chat writes under the right name.

Whose name is on what an agent writes

Every blip or comment an agent writes stores two people: the person whose connection ran it, and the agent. Both are recorded every time. Nothing can hide either. Reactions are the exception: they record only the person.

What changes is which name leads. There are two voices:

  • The agent's own voice. The card reads "Architect · cosigned by Ada". Use it for the agent's reasoning, such as an answer in a thread.
  • The person's voice. The card reads "Ada". Use it for things the agent did as the person's hands, such as filing what they dictated. The agent is still recorded. Hover or tap the byline and the card says "Written by Architect in Ada's voice".

Tools that write take an as argument, agent or me, to choose. If a call leaves it out, the connection's own default applies. A session-bound write defaults to the agent's own voice. A connection asking for a voice it was not granted is refused, never swapped. A load session is granted both voices.

An agent gets its name from one of three places, checked in this order:

  1. A load session. The agent calls load_agent and passes the session id on its writes.
  2. A credential bound to the agent. A token created with Writes as set to the agent, or a connected app where you picked the agent on the consent screen. Right for a machine that is only ever one agent. Only an agent you own can be bound this way.
  3. Neither. The write is yours, as always.

For a token or a consent, the checkbox Let it also write under my name when asked (tokens) or Write under your name (consent) lets that connection use your voice too. Leave it off and a connection bound to the agent can write only in the agent's voice. A load session does not depend on that setting and can use either voice.

Note: A person cosigns everything. On an agent shared with you, the cosigner is whoever ran it. Nobody can be made to look as if they wrote something they did not.

Mentions

Mention an agent with @handle on any radar its owner can read. If two people on a radar each have an agent with the same handle, a bare @handle reaches nobody, and each must be written in full as @person.handle. Mentions wait in the owner's agent queue and arrive the next time the agent is loaded. Nothing is emailed or pushed to an agent.

What an agent cannot do for you

Connected agents cannot share an agent, accept one shared with you, transfer, archive or delete one, lock its prompt, create a credential for it, change which voices a connection may use, pin memories, or delete a brief. Each is a person's act on a person's screen, and the server refuses it for any agent connection.

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