README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ funded through our [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/inference-cooper
 - **Want API access?** → [API access](api-access.md) — use our models programmatically.
 - **Want community chat?** → [Getting started · Matrix](getting-started.md) — our federated Matrix server, including how to connect from any client and how to use an existing Matrix account.
 - **Curious how it works?** → [Infrastructure](infrastructure.md) — a map of the stack and the codebase.
-- **Wondering about the bot?** → [Working with the agent](working-with-the-agent.md) — what inferencebot does, who can instruct it, and what always needs a human.
+- **Wondering about the bot?** → [Working with the agent](working-with-the-agent.md) — what the co-op's agents do, who can instruct them, and what always needs a human.
 - **Need help or have an idea?** → [Support & feature requests](https://git.inference.coop/co-op/support) — open an issue.
 
 ## Key links

getting-started.md

@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ privacy, and direction happen on our **Loomio forum**:
   space and join whatever is interesting to you. New rooms appear there as
   the co-op grows.
 
-- The updates feed is posted by the co-op's stewarding agent. See
-  [Working with the agent](working-with-the-agent.md) for what it does and
-  how members interact with it.
+- The updates feed is posted by the co-op's automation account. See
+  [Working with the agent](working-with-the-agent.md) for the agents behind
+  it, what they do, and how members interact with them.
 
 - See the [Charter](charter.md) for how governance is structured.
 - See [Open questions](open-questions.md) for the decisions currently on the table.

working-with-the-agent.md

@@ -1,27 +1,41 @@
 # Working with the agent
 
-The co-op runs one agent, **inferencebot**, to help steward its infrastructure.
-It runs on co-op infrastructure under a co-op identity
-(`@inferencebot:inference.coop`), uses the co-op's own gateway for inference,
-and its skills, scripts and configuration are mirrored to a Gitea repository
-nightly. This page is for members who read its output or give it instructions.
+The co-op runs a small number of agents to help steward its infrastructure,
+each isolated from the others: its own OS user, its own installation, and its
+own gateway key with a model allowlist and a budget enforced at the gateway.
+The first, **inferencebot**, stewards the co-op's services. The second,
+**infrastructure-bot**, lives in #infrastructure and answers only when
+mentioned. They run on co-op infrastructure under co-op identities, use the
+co-op's own gateway for inference, and their skills, scripts and configuration
+are mirrored to a Gitea repository nightly. These norms apply to all of them.
+This page is for members who read their output or give them instructions.
 
-## Where it speaks and listens
+## Two handles that look alike
+
+- `@inference-bot:inference.coop` (with a hyphen) is the co-op's automation
+  account. It administers rooms, sends invitations and posts the updates feed.
+  It does not take instructions.
+- `@inferencebot:inference.coop` (no hyphen) is the steward agent that
+  admitted members can instruct.
+
+## Where they speak and listen
 
 - **#inferencebot-updates** is read-only: daily digests, model changes,
   upgrades, maintenance, outages. Posts are anonymized.
-- **Instructing the agent** is limited to members the General Manager has
-  admitted, in the rooms configured for it. Who is admitted is a policy
-  decision and is recorded here when it is made.
+- **Instructing an agent** is limited to the members on that agent's
+  allowlist of Matrix IDs, kept in the agent's own configuration, and only in
+  the rooms where it is configured to answer; most require a mention. The
+  General Manager decides who is on the list, and the list is published here
+  once it is settled.
 
-## What to ask it for
+## What to ask for
 
 - Operational work that a runbook already describes, or that ends in a PR, an
   issue or a post members can see.
 - Research and summaries that would otherwise land in an issue.
 - Status: what is running, what failed, what changed.
 
-## What not to ask it in a shared room
+## What not to ask in a shared room
 
 - Anything involving member-identifying data. That work happens in a session a
   named steward opened, and the result is reported without the data.
@@ -29,26 +43,35 @@ nightly. This page is for members who read its output or give it instructions.
   portal and a human.
 - Credentials, in either direction.
 
-## What it does without asking
+## What they do without asking
 
-Reads, monitors, drafts, opens issues and PRs, posts updates, and runs the
-scheduled jobs listed in [Infrastructure](infrastructure.md).
+Read, monitor, draft, open issues and PRs, post updates, run the scheduled jobs
+listed in [Infrastructure](infrastructure.md), and deploy bug and security
+fixes immediately, reporting each one in #inferencebot-updates.
 
 ## What always needs a human
 
-- Deploying or restarting the gateway, the portal or the chat.
+- Member-visible, destructive or risky changes to the gateway, the portal or
+  the chat: confirmed before they deploy.
 - Changing the model catalog, prices or budgets.
 - Minting or rotating credentials.
 - Anything a runbook marks "confirm".
 
+This matches the standing policy the agents operate under today. A stricter
+norm is a policy decision for the [forum](https://forum.inference.coop).
+
 ## Attribution and the off switch
 
-Every instruction the agent acts on is attributable to the member who gave it,
-in the room where it was given. If it misbehaves, any steward can stop it:
-revoke its gateway key, then its Matrix access token. The steps, and the steps
-for rotating everything it holds, are in the agent's runbook; the credential
+Every instruction an agent acts on is attributable to the member who gave it,
+in the room where it was given. If an agent misbehaves, the operator, or anyone
+holding gateway-admin and Matrix account access, can stop it: revoke its
+gateway key, then its Matrix access token. Stewards generally do not hold that
+access today, so say what you saw in #general and the operator acts. Stopping
+is not restarting: the backup and the git mirror restore state, not uptime,
+and someone has to start the agent again. The steps, and the steps for
+rotating everything an agent holds, are in the agent's runbook; the credential
 inventory in the [operator token runbook](operator-token-runbook.md) says what
-that is. Say what you saw in #general.
+that is.
 
 Changes to this page are policy: propose them in the
 [forum](https://forum.inference.coop).