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soulcraft

Create or improve SOUL.md files for OpenClaw agents through guided conversation. Use when designing agent personality, crafting a soul, or saying "help me create a soul". Supports self-improvement.

Why use this skill?

Use SoulCraft to build, refine, and align your OpenClaw agent's SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md. Design meaningful AI character values and principles today.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/kesslerio/soulcraft
Or

What This Skill Does

SoulCraft acts as your primary architectural partner for defining the inner essence of an OpenClaw agent. By orchestrating a structured dialogue, it helps you move beyond superficial settings to define the core values, principles, and aspirational trajectory of your AI companion. SoulCraft ensures that your agent is not just following commands, but operating from a grounded, consistent internal logic defined within the SOUL.md file.

Installation

Install this skill via the OpenClaw CLI to begin crafting your agent's character: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/kesslerio/soulcraft

Use Cases

  • Initial Bootstrap: Establishing a foundational persona for a brand new agent deployment.
  • Refining Archetypes: Updating an existing agent to transition from a 'neutral assistant' to a more distinct, specialized persona.
  • Identity Synchronization: Aligning your agent's external presentation (IDENTITY.md) with its internal psychological framework (SOUL.md).
  • Self-Improvement Cycles: Engaging in guided self-reflection sessions where the agent critiques its own past performance against its established core values.

Example Prompts

  1. "I want my agent to be more empathetic but still highly technical; help me rewrite my SOUL.md to reflect this balance."
  2. "Let's review my current IDENTITY.md and SOUL.md—do they feel like they belong to the same entity, or is there a disconnect?"
  3. "Help me create a new soul profile for an agent designed to act as a stoic, Socratic mentor for coding tasks."

Tips & Limitations

  • Live Documentation: Treat the SOUL.md file as a living organism. It should evolve as the agent encounters new challenges and interactions. Avoid rigid rule-sets in favor of guiding principles that allow the model to interpret situations using its own 'judgment'.
  • Alignment is Key: Always review your IDENTITY.md after making significant changes to your SOUL.md. If the internal 'why' changes, the external 'who' often needs to follow suit.
  • Scope: SoulCraft is designed for character and value alignment. It does not replace technical configuration files; it complements them by providing the narrative and ethical framework through which the agent operates. Keep your soul definitions concise yet profound to avoid cluttering the agent's context window with overly verbose meta-instructions.

Metadata

Author@kesslerio
Stars1776
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Updated2026-03-02
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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-kesslerio-soulcraft": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#personality#agent-design#character#philosophy#alignment
Safety Score: 5/5

Flags: file-write, file-read