A being can satisfy the categorical imperative on a single occasion without thereby becoming an agent, revealing that conformity is at most a symptom, not a constitutive condition.

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Constitutive condition(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of language): A requirement that is essential and necessary—something that must be present for something else to actually exist or be what it is.
Symptom (in philosophical context)(as used in logic and philosophy of mind): A sign or indicator that something else is present, but not the real cause of it—like how a fever is a symptom of illness but doesn't define what makes something an illness.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics): The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
categorical imperative(Groundwork, 4.421, 429): The moral law requiring that one will the maxim of an action as a universal law (removing any self-preference) and treat humanity in any person always as an end and never merely as a means

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