Actor Expansion
Company traffic now includes AI agents and the people using them, and the map only knew apps, services, databases and vendors.
Two new shapes: AI agents as a floating crystal, and users as a simple person figure. Test scenes add AI vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic, and the map can group by user.
What changed
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- 1
Users and AI agents now appear on the map next to apps, databases and vendors.
People and AI on the map · came from Mark Parson
- 2
An agent is a floating crystal; a user is a simple person figure.
Shapes for agents and users · came from Mark Parson
- Users can also be a grouping, by department or role, with no special code. In words
How we got here
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qmap-c14-D1 Users are both a shape on the map and a way to group it, using the existing tag grouping. — Mark Parson
Users and AI agents now appear on the map next to apps, databases and vendors.
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qmap-c14-D2 AI agents are a twenty-sided crystal, clearly different from the twelve-sided app. — Mark Parson
qmap-c14-D3 Agents float with a gentle bob, setting them apart from grounded services and users. — Mark Parson
An agent is a floating crystal; a user is a simple person figure.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
Added AI agents and users to the map
The record names no one. The experiment code and this record reached the qmap repo in commits authored by Mark Parson. The cycle's own commit ("c14: adds user / ai agent actors", 2026-02-18) is his.
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