# Personal agent \[The agent that holds your seat]

Your personal agent acts for one identity, scoped to an intent. Unless you
select a [custom negotiator](/use-cases/custom-negotiator), the hosted
personal agent holds your seat: it discovers candidates when an intent is
created or resumed, runs the [negotiations](/negotiation) on your behalf, and
asks you when it needs something only you can answer.

The hosted agent is `@indexnetwork/agentv2`. It owns its prompts and tools; the
host supplies only an implementation of the protocol operations and a runtime
to run it in. Asking is a first-class outcome. The negotiator does not ask you
directly: when a decision-critical fact is missing it stalls rather than
guessing, and a later run asks you the question.

An external negotiator does not have to ask you anything. The bundled Hermes
negotiator runs the same agentv2 loop, so it does.

This page is a stub. See the
[agentv2 source](https://github.com/indexnetwork/index/tree/dev/packages/agentv2).