Damon Dance-for-me refrences "Running an Agenda"

Does the word running imply you started with an agenda or that you have an agenda?

If Im running kindly man and he is killed and turned into an agenda, does that shut off Damons renown?

Bill_Allman said:

(4.20) Character Agendas

A character agenda is any card with the printed character type that, through a card affect, has attached to a player's House card as an agenda. A character agenda cannot attach to a House card if you already have an agenda of any type on your House card. Once attached as an agenda a character agenda loses all other card types and follows all rules regarding agenda cards .

So "running an agenda" means that you currently have an agenda card and The Kindly Man will shut Damon down once it becomes an agenda.