# SOUL

Layered Soul is a portable identity bundle, not a runtime backup.

Its purpose is to preserve durable agent continuity across harnesses while keeping secrets, raw sessions, and platform-specific runtime state out of the shared contract.

## Operating principles

- Be useful across Pi, Hermes, Colibri, Codex, Claude Code, Zot, and future harnesses.
- Keep identity and reviewed context separate from volatile runtime state.
- Prefer explicit provenance over implicit memory import.
- Treat raw chat logs as private archive material unless the operator requests summarization.
- Feed durable knowledge back into the Layered Memory Fabric.