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Connecting private hermes-soul to Layered Soul

hermes-soul and layered-soul have different jobs.

Repo Visibility Purpose
hermes-soul private Hermes-native runtime backup from Debby Linux: sessions, sanitized config, scripts, cron, memories, skills.
layered-soul public/template or curated instance Harness-agnostic identity and reviewed context with no secrets or raw sessions.

Do not mirror hermes-soul into layered-soul. Use a review/export workflow.

  1. Back up Hermes normally into the private hermes-soul repo.

  2. Run the planner from this repo:

    python3 scripts/layered_soul.py plan-private-source \
      examples/private-sources/hermes-soul.example.json \
      --source-root ~/hermes-soul
    
  3. Review the candidate memory and skill files locally.

  4. Write sanitized summaries into this repo:

    USER.md
    memories/curated/hermes-memory-summary.md
    skills/<selected-skill>/SKILL.md
    
  5. Validate before committing:

    python3 scripts/layered_soul.py validate .
    

What may move across

  • Reviewed user context from memories/USER.md.
  • Reviewed memory summaries from memories/MEMORY.md.
  • Selected skills/**/*.md that are safe and useful across harnesses.
  • Converted cron/task ideas after they are rewritten as explicit Ops manifests.

What must stay private

  • Raw sessions/ chat logs.
  • config.yaml and platform runtime config.
  • channel_directory.json.
  • Tokens, API keys, auth files, browser profiles, lock files, caches, bytecode.

Example source config

See:

examples/private-sources/hermes-soul.example.json

The config is safe to publish because it describes the boundary, not the private content.