Glossary — AgentSoul

Soul

A soul is a portable identity bundle for an AI agent — four plain-Markdown files (soul.md, identity.md, user.md, agents.md) that encode personality, memory, voice, and writing style, forged once and applied across any agent harness.

soul.md

soul.md is the personality and tone file of a soul bundle — nine traits derived from the agent's Enneagram type, plus its voice and disposition.

identity.md

identity.md records who the agent is talking to, the project context, and agreed-upon facts, kept portable so the same identity reads cleanly across every tool.

user.md

user.md captures the user's preferences, working style, and constraints — what the agent should remember about the person it works for.

agents.md

agents.md defines an agent's output style, structure, signoffs, and inter-agent handoff conventions, so multiple agents can collaborate without clashing voices.

Deep Forge

Deep Forge is AgentSoul's canonical path: a 49-question Enneagram wizard, about 12 minutes in English, that scores your type and generates the four-file soul bundle.

Flash Forge

Flash Forge infers your type from 3–10 uploaded chat screenshots using Gemini Vision, processing the image bytes in memory only and never persisting them.

Gao Dao (高道)

Gao Dao is a Chinese-first, multi-turn guided dialogue with a mentor agent that draws out your personality and produces the same four-file soul bundle as the other forges.

Enneagram type

An Enneagram type is one of nine core personality patterns — defined by motivation, growth-edge, and stress behaviour — that AgentSoul uses as the backbone of a soul's personality field.

Wing

A wing is the adjacent Enneagram type that colours your core type, adding nuance that AgentSoul folds into the soul's tone and style guidance.

Certification tier

A certification tier (gold, silver, or bronze) is the safety-and-quality review level assigned to a published soul in the AgentSoul directory.

Portable identity bundle

A portable identity bundle is a set of plain-Markdown files that carries an agent's personality, memory, and voice unchanged from one harness to another, with no platform lock-in.

Agent harness

An agent harness is any tool that runs an LLM agent — such as Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, or Hermes — into which a soul's four Markdown files can be loaded as context.