diff --git a/app/automation/Service.zig b/app/automation/Service.zig
index a301e0ad6..77c2eaf1d 100644
--- a/app/automation/Service.zig
+++ b/app/automation/Service.zig
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ gpa: std.mem.Allocator,
 driver: *LiveDriver,
 /// Something else that drives the app, refusing a tape while it does — fizzy's demos.
 other: ?Other = null,
+/// Told who each live tape plays for (`OnAuthor`). Null: nobody listens, and authors are dropped.
+on_author: ?OnAuthor = null,
 /// What `snapshot` takes, framed by the app (`Snapshot.beginFrame` / `endFrame`). Null: no
 /// snapshots, and `snapshotText` is always null.
 snapshots: ?*Snapshot = null,
@@ -51,6 +53,13 @@ pub const Other = struct {
     driving: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque) bool,
 };
 
+/// Who the next live tape plays for (`Api.playAs`; null: itself), told to the app that runs its
+/// commands and frames: fizzy's demo, which acts as them (`Host.act`).
+pub const OnAuthor = struct {
+    ctx: *anyopaque,
+    set: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, author: ?sdk.Author) void,
+};
+
 const Past = struct {
     ticket: Api.Ticket,
     outcome: Api.Outcome,
@@ -63,6 +72,7 @@ pub fn bind(self: *Service) void {
 
 const vtable: Api.VTable = .{
     .play = play,
+    .playAs = playAs,
     .stop = stop,
     .outcome = outcome,
     .settled = settled,
@@ -82,13 +92,21 @@ fn othersDriving(self: *Service) bool {
 }
 
 fn play(ctx: *anyopaque, bytes: []const u8) Api.Play {
-    const self = from(ctx);
+    return playFor(from(ctx), bytes, null);
+}
+
+fn playAs(ctx: *anyopaque, bytes: []const u8, author: sdk.Author) Api.Play {
+    return playFor(from(ctx), bytes, author);
+}
+
+fn playFor(self: *Service, bytes: []const u8, author: ?sdk.Author) Api.Play {
     if (self.driver.playing() or self.othersDriving()) return .busy;
     var check = Input.check;
     check.live = true;
     const owned = Tape.load(self.gpa, bytes, check) catch |err| return .{ .invalid = @errorName(err) };
     // Read before the driver starts over and forgets it.
     const last = self.driverOutcome();
+    if (self.on_author) |o| o.set(o.ctx, author);
     self.driver.play(owned) catch |err| return switch (err) {
         error.Busy => .busy,
         else => .{ .invalid = @errorName(err) },
diff --git a/sdk/src/Host.zig b/sdk/src/Host.zig
index de155910f..d881e227f 100644
--- a/sdk/src/Host.zig
+++ b/sdk/src/Host.zig
@@ -1809,7 +1809,14 @@ pub fn documentEdited(self: *Host, doc_id: u64) void {
     if (self.activity.getLastOrNull()) |last| {
         if (self.activity_run == self.command_runs and last.doc_id == doc_id) return;
     }
-    const title = self.allocator.dupe(u8, std.mem.trimEnd(u8, c.title, "…")) catch return;
+    const what = std.mem.trimEnd(u8, c.title, "…");
+    // An agent's edit says whose ("Claude · Draw"); the person's own, and a demo narrating itself,
+    // stay plain.
+    const who = self.author();
+    const title = (if (who.kind == .agent and who.label.len > 0)
+        std.fmt.allocPrint(self.allocator, "{s} · {s}", .{ who.label, what })
+    else
+        self.allocator.dupe(u8, what)) catch return;
     if (self.activity.items.len == activity_cap) {
         self.allocator.free(self.activity.items[0].title);
         _ = self.activity.orderedRemove(0);
@@ -3154,3 +3161,19 @@ test "mayMerge: only the author's own step, so an agent never joins the person's
     host.recordStep(doc, .{ .kind = .added, .id = 3 });
     try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(u64, 1), host.unattributed_steps);
 }
+
+test "an agent's edit says whose in the activity; the person's stays plain" {
+    var host: Host = .init(std.testing.allocator);
+    defer host.deinit();
+    const draw: Command = .{ .id = "pixi.draw", .title = "Draw" };
+    host.running_command = &draw;
+    host.setInputAuthor(.person);
+    host.documentEdited(1);
+    try std.testing.expectEqualStrings("Draw", host.activity.items[0].title);
+
+    host.command_runs += 1;
+    const outer = host.act(.{ .kind = .agent, .plugin = "agent", .session = 1, .label = "Claude" });
+    host.documentEdited(1);
+    host.endAct(outer);
+    try std.testing.expectEqualStrings("Claude · Draw", host.activity.items[1].title);
+}
diff --git a/sdk/src/services/automation.zig b/sdk/src/services/automation.zig
index 0cdf45c02..f469a8caa 100644
--- a/sdk/src/services/automation.zig
+++ b/sdk/src/services/automation.zig
@@ -48,10 +48,12 @@
 //!
 //! Optional, like every service: an app with nothing to play tapes on registers none.
 
+const Author = @import("../Author.zig");
+
 pub const Api = struct {
     /// Bump whenever this struct's layout changes: `getServiceTyped` refuses a provider whose
     /// version differs rather than reinterpreting one shape as another across `dlopen`.
-    pub const service_version: u32 = 5;
+    pub const service_version: u32 = 6;
     pub const service_name = "automation";
 
     ctx: *anyopaque,
@@ -89,6 +91,8 @@ pub const Api = struct {
 
     pub const VTable = struct {
         play: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, bytes: []const u8) Play,
+        /// `play`, the tape acting for `author` (`Host.act`): an agent's pointer tape is the agent's.
+        playAs: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, bytes: []const u8, author: Author) Play,
         stop: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, ticket: Ticket) void,
         outcome: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, ticket: Ticket) Outcome,
         settled: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque) bool,
@@ -118,6 +122,12 @@ pub const Api = struct {
         return self.vtable.play(self.ctx, bytes);
     }
 
+    /// `play`, with what the tape changes made by `author` (an agent playing pointer input on the
+    /// person's behalf): `play` alone leaves the tape its own author.
+    pub fn playAs(self: Api, bytes: []const u8, author: Author) Play {
+        return self.vtable.playAs(self.ctx, bytes, author);
+    }
+
     /// Stop the tape `ticket` names where it is. Nothing when that tape is not the one playing:
     /// a caller can stop its own tape, never someone else's.
     pub fn stop(self: Api, ticket: Ticket) void {
diff --git a/src/editor/Demo.zig b/src/editor/Demo.zig
index 1ca73df43..19618c326 100644
--- a/src/editor/Demo.zig
+++ b/src/editor/Demo.zig
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ quitting: bool = false,
 arrange: ?automation.Tape.Keyframe.Layout = null,
 /// Every plugin's settings as the demo found them, as ZON, to give back at the end.
 settings_saved: std.ArrayListUnmanaged(SavedSettings) = .empty,
+/// Who a live tape plays for (`automation.Api.playAs`): an agent's pointer tape is the agent's.
+/// Strings owned here. Null: the live tape is its own author.
+live_author: ?sdk.Author = null,
 
 const SavedSettings = struct {
     owner: []u8,
@@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ pub fn attach(self: *Demo, editor: *Editor) void {
         .editor = editor,
         .player = .init(gpa, stage),
         .live = .init(stage),
-        .service = .{ .gpa = gpa, .driver = &self.live, .other = .{ .ctx = self, .driving = demoLoaded }, .snapshots = &self.snapshot, .captures = &self.picture },
+        .service = .{ .gpa = gpa, .driver = &self.live, .other = .{ .ctx = self, .driving = demoLoaded }, .on_author = .{ .ctx = self, .set = liveAuthorSet }, .snapshots = &self.snapshot, .captures = &self.picture },
         .snapshot = .init(gpa),
         .picture = .init(gpa),
     };
@@ -133,6 +136,7 @@ fn demoLoaded(ctx: *anyopaque) bool {
 }
 
 pub fn deinit(self: *Demo) void {
+    self.setLiveAuthor(null);
     self.quitting = true;
     self.snapshot.deinit();
     self.picture.deinit();
@@ -354,6 +358,48 @@ const stage_vtable: automation.Stage.VTable = .{
     .fingerprint = fingerprint,
 };
 
+/// A live tape played by nobody in particular, or a demo with no name.
+const tape_author: sdk.Author = .{ .kind = .tape, .plugin = "fizzy", .label = "a tape" };
+
+/// Whose frame this is when a tape drives it: the live tape's author (`live_author`, else the
+/// tape itself), or the demo being played or sought through. Null when no tape drives: a real
+/// press or key stops either before the frame's input is consumed, so the frame is the person's.
+pub fn author(self: *const Demo) ?sdk.Author {
+    if (self.live.playing()) return self.live_author orelse tape_author;
+    switch (self.player.state) {
+        .playing, .seeking => {},
+        else => return null,
+    }
+    const tape = (self.player.owned orelse return tape_author).tape;
+    return .{
+        .kind = .tape,
+        .plugin = "fizzy",
+        .session = std.hash.Wyhash.hash(0, tape.name),
+        .label = if (tape.title.len > 0) tape.title else tape.name,
+    };
+}
+
+fn liveAuthorSet(ctx: *anyopaque, who: ?sdk.Author) void {
+    from(ctx).setLiveAuthor(who);
+}
+
+/// Play the next live tape for `who` (`automation.Api.playAs`); null, for no one in particular.
+pub fn setLiveAuthor(self: *Demo, who: ?sdk.Author) void {
+    const gpa = self.editor.app.gpa;
+    if (self.live_author) |a| {
+        gpa.free(a.plugin);
+        gpa.free(a.label);
+    }
+    self.live_author = null;
+    const a = who orelse return;
+    const plugin = gpa.dupe(u8, a.plugin) catch return;
+    const label = gpa.dupe(u8, a.label) catch {
+        gpa.free(plugin);
+        return;
+    };
+    self.live_author = .{ .kind = a.kind, .plugin = plugin, .session = a.session, .label = label };
+}
+
 fn from(ctx: *anyopaque) *Demo {
     return @ptrCast(@alignCast(ctx));
 }
@@ -628,6 +674,9 @@ fn idle(ctx: *anyopaque) bool {
 /// palette does once they are given; what it returns is not the demo's business.
 fn command(ctx: *anyopaque, id: []const u8, args: []const u8) void {
     const host = &from(ctx).editor.app.host;
+    // A tape's command is the tape's (or, for a live tape played for someone, theirs).
+    const outer = host.act(from(ctx).author() orelse tape_author);
+    defer host.endAct(outer);
     if (args.len == 0) {
         host.runCommand(id) catch |err| dvui.log.warn("demo: command {s} failed: {t}", .{ id, err });
         return;
diff --git a/src/editor/Editor.zig b/src/editor/Editor.zig
index 58e265248..19b47b377 100644
--- a/src/editor/Editor.zig
+++ b/src/editor/Editor.zig
@@ -4321,6 +4321,10 @@ pub fn tick(editor: *Editor) !dvui.App.Result {
             // layout needed these five calls verbatim, and getting one wrong is a bug an app
             // author has no way to diagnose. A shape declares regions; it does not run the
             // frame.
+            // The frame's input is consumed from here to the palette: whatever it changes is the
+            // person's, or a tape's while one drives (`Host.setInputAuthor`). Plugins' frame hooks
+            // outside it act for themselves, or are nobody's.
+            editor.app.host.setInputAuthor(editor.demo.author() orelse .person);
             var layout_root = dvui.box(@src(), .{ .dir = .vertical }, .{ .expand = .both, .background = false });
             for (editor.app.host.plugins.items) |plugin| plugin.tickActiveDocument(layout_root.data().id);
             editor.flushQueuedNativeMenuActions();
@@ -4373,6 +4377,7 @@ pub fn tick(editor: *Editor) !dvui.App.Result {
                 .{layout.depth},
             );
 
+            editor.app.host.setInputAuthor(null);
             for (editor.app.host.plugins.items) |plugin| plugin.endFrame();
             layout_root.deinit();
 
@@ -4380,6 +4385,8 @@ pub fn tick(editor: *Editor) !dvui.App.Result {
         }
 
         { // Plugin keybinds + per-frame overlays (e.g. pixel-art's radial menu)
+            editor.app.host.setInputAuthor(editor.demo.author() orelse .person);
+            defer editor.app.host.setInputAuthor(null);
             // While the palette owns the keyboard, plugin ticks must not run — otherwise a
             // plugin's `matchBind` (e.g. pixi Export on the same chord as Quick Open) steals
             // focus before the palette entry can claim it.
diff --git a/tests/integration.zig b/tests/integration.zig
index e86cf045d..f99366bfc 100644
--- a/tests/integration.zig
+++ b/tests/integration.zig
@@ -7226,12 +7226,18 @@ test "headless: the whole editor comes up, opens a file, plays the tour and goes
     const lookback = fizzy.core.profile.lookback() orelse return error.TestUnexpectedResult;
     lookback.budget_ns = 0;
     defer lookback.budget_ns = std.time.ns_per_s / 60;
+    const unattributed_before = editor.app.host.unattributed_steps;
     try editor.demo.play("tour");
     var frames: usize = 0;
     while (editor.demo.player.state != .ended and frames < 5000) : (frames += 1) {
         _ = try dvui.testing.step(headlessFrame);
     }
     try std.testing.expectEqual(app.automation.Player.State.ended, editor.demo.player.state);
+    // Every step the tour made has an author: its own where it drives the frame, or its commands'
+    // (`Host.act` in the demo's stage). A step nobody acted for is a missed site
+    // (`plans/SHARED_HISTORY_PLAN.md`). Owners report every step once that plan's step 3 lands;
+    // until then this guards the steps reported while recording.
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(unattributed_before, editor.app.host.unattributed_steps);
     {
         var out: std.Io.Writer.Allocating = .init(std.testing.allocator);
         defer out.deinit();