> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbitagents.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Agents vs Sessions

Important to understand: Agents work for you in the background. Sessions are you working with AI directly. One Orbit Cloud.

#### Sessions

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.

#### Agents (Orbits)

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.