Where do Agents go?

Zelon

Agents are individual programs that have identical thought patterns(Agent Smith was exiled since he wasnt following the machine point of view.). Each Agent Searches the matrix either in a group of 3 or by themselves. Smith uses his ear piece to find anomolies in the matrix(Smith touches his ear piece before he takes possestion of a homeless man in the subway). Smith is told by other agents that he didnt hear, supposedly about Neo and Trinity entering the building. The Architect looks at different screens to view the matrix probably the Agents look at this when they enter the source from a body.

Agents use human bodies to live in the matrix but exiles dont it seems. It seems agents use the humans RSI to protect their own RSI (if the agent didnt have a human host, he would be just another exile, be permanetly deleted if killed).

Kayda

The Agent programs are stored in the Windows XP Prefetch folder, for quick execution. Though, the Architect has flush the folder out every now and then, and they're all cramped up into a 200MB swap file for hours on end...the poor dears...

No, but seriously, they're probably stored in a quick executing cache of some kind. Or they are never truly gone, persay.

They probably are ran as a hidden process that becomes active when a certain trigger is activated.

**FrozenFyre**

Good theories so far- I'm just gonna add one, I don't know whether it's right or wrong or anything- but here goes. Not all programs have an actual "physical" form in the Matrix- such as the programs controlling the wind, trees etc, and more recently, the Effectuator. While not needed, they could just revert to being part of the Matrix- whilst still having their knowledge and being able to think, gather data, recieve orders etc. Then once they're needed for action they start bluepill hopping, then revert to their previous state once they're no longer needed. This might explain how they can move from bluepill to bluepill after being killed or needing to move, they revert to being code, then assimilate the next bluepill. The one thing that would seem to contradict this is the present of the stationary "informer" agents in the Matrix- my theory is that they are just normal programs, with the strength and appearance of agents- but not occupying a bluepill. What interests me is the fact that the agents want to get into Zion's computers- I wonder if Zion have their own programs running around doing stuff for them?

phaydren

ok this theory will make you think the next time you jack in

when you jack in you get the green code screen

everthing in the matrix is composed of cod and in one of the previous posts some one mentioned how an antivirus is not active all the time just when it detects a virus

now in the code stream you see at jack in maybe that is where the agents reside until they are needed

and simply move from the codestream into the code of a nearby bluepill

simply put an agent could be in the codestream right beneath you waiting for you to make just one wrong move lol

ok... well all of those ideas r pretty nice but has anyone thought that perhaps they store their data within the "bugs" which are planted into bluepills? They plant one into Neo to keep trakc of him, due to the bug when something out of the ordinary happens they can "posses" Neo and take care of it, but to do that they need the bug inside of him, enabling them to camp bits of their data within his body... just a thought...

Zelon

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ok... well all of those ideas r pretty nice but has anyone thought that perhaps they store their data within the "bugs" which are planted into bluepills? They plant one into Neo to keep trakc of him, due to the bug when something out of the ordinary happens they can "posses" Neo and take care of it, but to do that they need the bug inside of him, enabling them to camp bits of their data within his body... just a thought...

I doubt that agents decided to walk around abandoned buildings and put bugs in homeless people. They didnt possess the Detective in the Animatrix when he had the bug it was after that. In the matrix I would believe that when you reach an age when you believe that everything is right with the world you start believing that Agents are real people or that the wall that just formed was always there. Neo could not have been taken because he knew something was wrong with the world. "some people are not ready to be unplugged." This goes for namely the children because at young ages they think everything is real till they start to as adults say go rebeluse and start doing drugs and stuff. When there are some adults that still act like this(Neo) and his drug buddies. When you get to the point Neo should have been possessed as soon as he got into the car. They(Switch and Trin) didnt know that Neo thought the world was wrong in some way that is why they had the guns on him.

cesspool

I believe that an Agent in fact could have taken over Neo while in the car, but I think they did not for tactical reasons. If one had then it just would have gotten Neo killed, and seeing as they had no idea of his importance in their eyes it would be a waste of a good battery. They were planning to use Neo to lead them to Morpheus, however this was foiled when the bug was found and removed. Even if the Agent had not been shot "dodge this" style, the most he could have accomplished would have been to kill a few of the crew. Morpheus and the others were at the safehouse, and thus their accomplishments moot. At the time Morpheus was just about the biggest threat to the system, along with being a captain of a hovercraft in possession of Zion access codes. The prospect of either destroying or capturing him far outweighed any immediate gains to be had by taking over Neo.