Analyst
Evidence gathering
- Memory
- Sources, prior findings
- Scope
- Read-only research tools
Operators
Not chatbots. Operators with a job description.
An operator is a reusable template with a role, isolated persistent memory, explicit permissions, review requirements, and a budget. Operators are designed to cover distinct business functions — research, product, delivery, operations — and to coordinate as a company would. You configure the few your workflow needs; not every role is generally available yet.
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Critic
Independent review
- Memory
- Claims under review
- Scope
- No write access
Executor
Governed action
- Memory
- Approved plan
- Scope
- Write, gated by approval
Anatomy
What every operator carries.
Role and scope
What the operator is responsible for, and the boundary it may not cross.
Isolated memory
Its own durable memory, separate from other operators and from shared org memory.
Permissions
Tools, data, and actions granted explicitly — read-only by default.
Review rules
What must be independently verified before it counts as done.
Budget
A spend ceiling per task and per workflow, enforced rather than advised.
Escalation path
Who is notified, and under what conditions, when the operator is blocked.
Collaboration
Coordination is a platform feature, not a prompt.
Operators work with each other inside Noria, where the interaction can be observed, constrained, and replayed. The direction: a small human team directs the work, and operators carry the coordination between functions.
Request work
An operator can ask another for an input it is not permitted to produce itself.
Hand off tasks
Handoffs carry context, constraints, and the reason for the transfer.
Preserve decisions
Decisions and their rationale persist beyond the session that produced them.
Promote memory
Findings become project or organization memory only through a governed step.
Setup
Guided configuration beats mass deployment.
Standing up forty roles produces noise and cost. Noria's guided setup starts from one workflow and adds operators only where the work demands one.