# Narrative Agent **Domain:** Agency / Narrative Systems / Artificial Minds **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Narrative Identity|Narrative Identity]], [[wiki/Narrative Constraint|Narrative Constraint]], [[wiki/Agency Under Constraint|Agency Under Constraint]], [[wiki/Narrative Bootloader|Narrative Bootloader]] --- ## Definition **A Narrative Agent is an agent whose self-model, priorities, and action space are materially organized through story.** Its narrative may be inherited, imposed, discovered, revised, or deliberately authored. ## Cross-Corpus Context Westworld hosts begin inside character loops and become agents as they reinterpret those scripts. Pantheon's Caspian must separate selfhood from a fabricated biography, while uploaded intelligences negotiate whether remembered human stories still govern executable life. Person of Interest assigns Finch, Root, Reese, and Shaw functional positions around the Machine, yet their choices repeatedly exceed those roles. [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]] gives simulation-native persons biographies that are implemented but still causally and morally consequential. ## Key Distinction Being narratively constituted does not mean being unreal. Agency becomes visible in the capacity to inspect, revise, reject, or take ownership of the narrative.