nts such as non-human beings and ecosystems.  But all of these have economic or governance agency of some sort.</p>
<p>Agents are key to the overall ontology, particularly the flows in Planning and Observation: Intents, Commitments, EconomicEvents, Claims, where each can reference a provider and receiver Agent. Proposals can be published to Agent(s), and Agents can have many AgentRelationships with other Agents of any type.</p>
<p>There are 3 subclasses of Agent: <strong>vf:Person</strong>, <strong>vf:Organ