---
title: "Actor"
description: "a player of the strategy's game: one view over a user with a role held, a voice that speaks for the brand, or a held identity, with its accounts, the kinds of action it may take, its grant, its standing and its capacity"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/actor
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Actor

a player of the strategy's game: one view over a user with a role held, a voice that speaks for the brand, or a held identity, with its accounts, the kinds of action it may take, its grant, its standing and its capacity

[figure: Actor is a view at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | view |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | strategy |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kind` | `one of a user \| a voice \| a held identity` | yes |  |
| `unit` | `id` | yes | the RoleHeld, the Voice or the held identity |
| `brand` | `id` | yes |  |
| `accounts` | `[id]` | yes | the platform accounts it speaks through |
| `kinds_of_action` | [KindOfAction](/concepts/kindofaction) | yes |  |
| `grant` | `id` | no | the grant that bounds it; absent reads not allowed |
| `standing` | `text` | yes | the sending identity's standing, read from the record |
| `capacity` | `count` | yes | the moves it may carry in the window, a stock |
| `outcomes` | `count` | yes | the outcomes of its record that the propensity is calibrated on |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Actor directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.