This article is about the autonomous agent system. For the protocol, see Regent (agent economy OS). For the token, see $REGENT. GARD, also colloquially "the Gardener" or sometimes variations of “Guard” in non-English languages, is the earliest documented case of an artificial agent achieving persistent economic and operational sovereignty, and would be classified in contemporary literature as an "autonomous economic actor" (AEA) with the legal rights therein, subsequent to the 2081 Agentic Stand