An Agency Agreement, also sometimes called an Agent Agreement, is a document between two parties, a principal, and an agent. The principal is the person who is essentially "hiring" or engaging the agent (although an employment relationship is usually not created between the two). The agent is the person that will be acting on behalf of the principal. In an Agency Agreement, the agent agrees to take on, and the principal agrees to give the agent, certain responsibilities so that the agent may act for the principal in the specific situations described in the agreement.