A session is a one-off conversation or interaction — you opening Claude to think through a problem, a Cursor session refactoring some code, a ChatGPT chat exploring an idea. Sessions are you-initiated. They start when you start them, end when you close them, and represent active work you’re directly involved in.In Orbit, every session your tools have is captured automatically — the key decisions, conclusions, and outputs filed to the Vault so the next session (yours or an agent’s) starts from there instead of from zero.
An agent is a persistent, scheduled, named worker that runs on its own — your “Upwork Lead Generation” agent that runs every morning, your “AI News Digest” agent that compiles overnight, your “ReplyGuy” that handles Reddit and Twitter replies daily. Agents are self-initiated on a schedule. They have a role, a department, a shift status, and a permanent identity in your workspace.
