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egregores and tulpas are a couple of agency-tweaking practices from this inherently fringy area of thought.
"the servitor programming scene" appears to be a sort of constructivist form of occultism where you make your own agents.
Might be some good leads here. I've always wondered about the spirits of the goetia ("Marax is a great president with 144 servants" etc) as a precursor to the whole servitor programming scene.