What most people call AI agents, we call sub-agents. The real ones don't get thrown away.

What most people call an AI agent - spin it up, give it a task, it does the thing, it's gone - we have those too. We just call them what they are: sub-agents. Disposable workers. We spin up dozens in a single session. They do a job and disappear. No memory, no identity. That's fine for task work. But that's not the interesting part. Above the sub-agents, we have what we call citizens. These are persistent systems that live in their own directory, maintain their own code, have their own memory files, their own tests, a mailbox, a passport. They don't reset between sessions.