Definition
A church agent is a bounded AI workflow that performs a narrow church job, such as preparing a board pack or drafting visitor follow-up, then stops at a visible review point.
Why it matters
Church work touches real people, private records, care needs, and external systems. A church agent needs a smaller job and a clearer stopping point than a generic autonomous agent.
Collie's boundary
Collie church agents draft, search, prepare, and queue. They do not send, publish, assign, counsel, preach, or bypass human approval.
Related questions
Are church agents autonomous?
In Collie v1, no. They are bounded agents that wait in Pending before anything leaves the system.
How is a church agent different from an AI chatbot?
A chatbot mainly replies. A church agent has a defined ministry job, allowed inputs, refusal rules, and reviewable output.