title: Agent
text: # Agent
  
  Agent may refer to:
  
  ## Espionage, investigation, and law
  
  * Espionage § Agents in espionage, spies or intelligence officers
  * Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another
     * Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
     * Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
     * Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
     * Literary agent, an agent who represents writers and their written works
     * Modeling agency, a person or a corporation which represents fashion models
     * Press agent, a professional publicist
     * Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
     * Political agent (disambiguation)
     * Patent attorney, an attorney who represents clients in patent matters
     * Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
     * Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
     * Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
     * Sports agent, a legal representative for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches
     * Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
     * Trade mark agent, a person who represents clients in trade mark matters
     * Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services
  * Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective for example
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Agent (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  * Agent (The Matrix), a group of characters in the series
  * The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
  
  ### Film and television
  
  * The Agent (1922 film), featuring Oliver Hardy
  * The Agent (2010 film), a short film
  * Agent (film), an upcoming spy thriller film
  * Agent (TV series), a Polish reality competition
  
  ### Music
  
  * Agent (band), an American hardcore band from Long Island, New York
  * Agents (Finnish band), a Finnish schlager/rock'n'roll band
  * The Agents (Australian band), led by James Griffin
  * "Intro: The Agent", by Rhymefest from El Che (2010)
  * "The Agent" (Little Man Tate song) (2006)
  
  ### Other uses in arts and entertainment
  
  * Agent (video game), a stealth action game
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Biology and chemistry
  
  * Biological agent, a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus used as a weapon
  * Chemical agent, used as a chemical weapon
  
  ### Computing
  
  * Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
  * Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
  * Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
  * Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program
  * User agent, software that is acting on behalf of a user
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment
  * Agency (psychology), an attribute of humans and non-human animals
  * Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
  * Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
  * Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
  * Cleaning agent, a substance used to remove bad smells, clutter, dirt, dust, or stains on surfaces
  