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# Overview and Getting Started
### What are Agents?
Agents are a chat-driven workspace on Tread where you hire an AI specialist to plan and run trades for you. Instead of manually filling in the order form and clicking buttons, you describe what you want in plain English ("work 500k of SOL on Binance over the next 2 hours, stay passive"), and the agent translates that into an order with the desired paramters.
Each agent is a different specialist with its own personality and toolset:
* **Desk Trader** — Regular order execution.
* **Market Maker** — runs a market making bot on your behalf
**What agents can do:** read market data, place and manage orders on the accounts *you've explicitly whitelisted*, monitor positions, and respond to your follow-up instructions in chat.
**What agents can't do:** touch accounts you haven't whitelisted, move funds off the platform, override your existing risk limits, or run forever silently.
> **Beta.** Agents is in beta. The first time you open it you'll be asked to accept the Beta Terms of Service. Expect occasional rough edges, and please send feedback.
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### Whitelisting your Account
Open the Settings view and move at least one account into the *Whitelisted* column. Without this, agents have no account to trade on. This also prevents agents from touching any accounts you do not permit it to.
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