The basic idea of the essay, I think, is that "an agent" is a thing in idea-space that a non-agent intelligence (oracle) has access to and can describe to a user.
"describe" in this context means "write code to represent"
Then the user is turning what was an oracular AI into an agentic AI. The idea here, is that if you think that you're safe because you haven't made an agent, just an oracle, that's a false sense of security. Oracles are just one user choice away from becoming an agent.
If one thinks agents are safe for some reason, that's a whole separate discussion I think.
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