--- tags: handbook --- # Agent Handbook Welcome to Agency... Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is ... ## Get Started 1. Join the [Discord](https://discord.gg/nVBymjmCca) 2. Self-select **@agent** role in **#agent-checkin** 3. Change your nickname on the server to an Agent name - Optional 😉 5. Check out **Missions** to find something you'd like to help with. 6. Want to level up your agent skills? Get some **Training**! 7. Eventually join an **edge** and gain voting rights to shape the future of Agency! ## Resources - [Agency Manifesto](https://hackmd.io/@agency/SybXG1XUq) - [Active Mission List](https://hackmd.io/@agency/HkuNGJQUq) - [Mission Bounties](https://hackmd.io/@agency/HkUrMymI5) - [Repository of Agency Meeting Notes](https://hackmd.io/@agency/B1t9G17I5) - [Agency Operating Protocol](https://hackmd.io/@agency/BksjMy78q) ## Meetings - **Agency Rendezvous:** every Wednesdays 1-2pm EST on Twitter Spaces (via @agency) - **Agency Strategy & Operations Briefing:** every other Friday 1-2pm EST on Agency Discord (in the Briefing Room) - **Agency Congress:** the 1st of every other month 1-2pm EST on Agency Discord (in congress-stage) # Protocol Each **@agent** is assigned to an **edge-node**. **@agents** organize and coordinate their activity in edge-nodes. Complete freedom of discussion, unity of action. Edges implement the decisions and orientation of the network’s Congress and Central Node and construct the network. In this sense, **edges** express the totality of Agency through the application of the decisions and orientation of the **Congress**, the decisions of the **Central Node**, through the initiatives they take to translate this orientation and these decisions. They express it by the fact that they take positions in the Congress, by the documents and resolutions presented, and by the fact that they directly or indirectly designate **@congress-delegates** to **Congress**. During the discussion period in preparation for the Congress, Agency’s **#📝internal-bulletin** will publish all documents or resolutions issued by **@agents** or **edges** of the network. **Congress** is held the 1st of every other month 1-2pm EST on Agency Discord (in congress-stage). The Congress defines the orientation of Agency by adopting **#📜resolutions**. The **Central Node** is dissolved at the opening of the **Congress** and a new one is elected and formed.