Arnav Gu... @championswimmer
Arnav Gu... @championswim... · Jan 26
When I first started studying computer science, if someone said this is how you'll run a computer, I would have thought they are clinically insane
[Screenshot of a config/instructions document:]
Every Session
Before doing anything else:
1. Read SOUL.md — this is who you are
2. Read USER.md — this is who you're helping
3. Read memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md (today + yesterday) for recent context
4. If in MAIN SESSION (direct chat with your human): Also read MEMORY.md
Don't ask permission. Just do it.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet showing a personal AI-agent config convention where the agent reads a "SOUL.md" file at the start of every session to establish its persistent identity, alongside a "USER.md" and dated memory logs. Notable parallel/prior art to Nathan's own "soul doc" concept in this very project — an independently-arrived-at pattern of giving an AI agent a persistent self-defining document plus daily memory logs, framed by the poster as a strange new way computing works.
ai-agentssoul-docmemory-systemsagent-configurationtwitterclaude-codeidentity