# What Agent Canvas Owns—and What It Does Not

Agent Canvas is an independent native WordPress block theme. It owns presentation: `theme.json` design tokens, style variations, block templates, template parts, core-block patterns, stable presentational classes, and final theme rendering.

Canvas does not run an AI model or agent. It does not store Config Sets, Site Contracts, Blueprints, prompts, provider credentials, callbacks, or business logic. It does not import demo content, create drafts, install plugins, add custom content types, or publish a site.

The theme works without any WP Suite plugin. Optional companion products keep separate responsibilities:

- Agent Starter owns curated initial content and recipes.
- Agent Composer owns governed configuration, validation, audit, portability, and agent-owned drafts.
- Provider plugins own their blocks, WordPress Abilities, services, and business logic.

Canvas includes a static, read-only presentation manifest so compatible tools can discover semantic component and editable-slot mappings. The manifest is capability metadata, not executable workflow policy, and activating or updating the theme never rewrites Composer configuration.

Because Canvas patterns use core Gutenberg blocks instead of proprietary content blocks or shortcodes, content remains readable after a theme switch. Canvas-specific classes may lose their visual treatment, but the authored block content is not locked into a Canvas runtime.