Layered Soul

Layered Soul is the clean cross-harness soul repository for Clawdie agents.

It carries durable identity, reviewed user context, and approved skills in a format that Pi, Hermes, Colibri, Codex, Claude Code, Zot, and future harnesses can adapt without copying a whole runtime backup.

hermes-soul can continue to exist as the Hermes-native backup from Debby Linux. This repo is the shared source contract.

Core files

• SOUL.md — durable agent identity, values, voice, and operating style
• USER.md — operator/user context that may be shared with this agent
• IDENTITY.md — short runtime identity and boundaries
• AGENTS.md — harness-facing operating rules
• manifest.json — schema, provenance, privacy, and adapter hints

Optional layers

• skills/ — reviewed reusable procedures that can seed system_skills or harness-native skill directories
• memories/curated/ — reviewed memory summaries that can seed system_brain
• adapters/ — notes for materializing the same soul into specific harnesses

Rules

• No secrets.
• No raw chat logs by default.
• No harness lock files or runtime caches.
• Raw Hermes sessions stay in hermes-soul unless the operator requests summarization.
• Durable memory returns to the Layered Memory Fabric.