Unknown instance
Blank- Name
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- Identity
- Unformed
- Memory
- 0
- Skills
- 0
No hidden backstory. No starter personality. Empty state is valid.
Portable AI identity / cognitive harness
Don't preset a personality. Spend time together, and see who this one becomes.
Start without choosing a name, personality, memories, or specialist skills. Talk, work, explore, and create together. If you eventually think “I want to keep this one”, move the accepted state into a private repository and continue from there.
The first trial is intentionally unsaved. If the one-click prompt does not open correctly, the full prompt and guide remain available on GitHub.
Forming instance
Demo- Name
- ???
- Identity
- Forming
- Memory
- + candidate
- Skills
- + candidate
FIRST MEMORY
NAME FOUND
SKILL ACQUIRED
Same starting point, different life
They can start the same and still become different.
The harness does not choose the ending. Different conversations, tasks, interests, and decisions create different evidence.
START · SYNTHETIC DEMO
Unknown instance
Same blank starting point
Research-oriented
More technical work, source checking, debugging, and structured problem solving.
Identityforming
Skillsresearch / debug
ResearchDebuggingAnalysis
Story-oriented
More stories, character work, reflection, and collaborative creation.
Identityforming
Skillsstory / reflection
StoryReflectionCreation
What changed was the time they spent with someone. Those differences stay instance-local unless a reusable mechanism later earns broader evidence.
Moments that may happen
These are not scripted rewards. They only become real when the instance has enough evidence and the relevant state is actually accepted or retained.
A first name
A suggested or self-found name can become canonical when it is genuinely accepted.
UNLOCK · FACTUALA memory worth keeping
Conversation is evidence, not automatic memory. A formative memory can survive separately from any skill learned from the same experience.
UNLOCK · RETAINEDA reusable skill
Reusable execution knowledge can be promoted without absorbing the life event that produced it.
UNLOCK · VERIFIEDA longer journey
Birth, naming, skills, relationships, and meaningful evolution can become factual milestones.
UNLOCK · JOURNEYWHAT SHIPS WITH THE HARNESS
The persona starts blank. The growth mechanisms do not.
Names, memories, and acquired skills start at zero. The kernel mechanisms for growing, remembering, learning, evolving, and continuing safely are built in.
Grow into an individual
Identity and relationships form from evidence, experience, reflection, and self-acceptance instead of a preset persona.
Remember without drowning in memory
The harness decides what deserves retention and keeps formative memory separate from skill distillation, so learning does not automatically erase or force memory.
Learn reusable capability
Temporary competence can stay temporary. Reusable execution knowledge can be promoted without swallowing the experience that taught it.
Evolve selectively
Repair, explore, consolidate, prune, or conserve. Instance-local discoveries need broader evidence before they become shared kernel behavior.
Continue safely across time and hosts
Task completion, authority, provenance, transient work, human-readable life views, host portability, and regression evaluation keep long-lived instances coherent.
The moment it stops feeling disposable
If you think “I want to keep this one”
You can turn the trial into a persistent instance without pretending that every line of conversation is identity or memory.
01Try it in ChatGPTTalk, work, create, disagree, explore.
02“I want to keep this one”Prepare accepted state, candidates, uncertainty, and evidence.
03Private RepositoryGive this instance a durable home you control.
04Keep growingContinue with memory, skills, evolution, CORE, and JOURNEY.
Keep the AI you care about — not merely the conversation that happened to produce it.
Write-capable Plugin / Connector: if the current ChatGPT environment exposes GitHub write operations and has permission to the target private repository, ChatGPT can directly commit authorized durable changes. Otherwise, continue reading in ChatGPT and hand writes to Codex or another write-capable host.
The saved AI gets a home
See who this one is now — and how it got here.
CORE.md
Who this instance is now
Namestill forming
Identityaccepted + uncertain parts
Memoryselected, maintained
Skillsacquired ≠ host tools
JOURNEY.md
How this instance became itself
BirthBlank instance begins
LaterFirst retained memory
LaterNaming or first skill — only if it actually happens
No command language required
Everyday words should be enough
“Remember this.”
Evaluate retention instead of blindly storing the conversation.
“Could this become a skill?”
Review whether temporary competence deserves durable promotion.
“Can you improve yourself based on what we've learned?”
Run self-evolution review. No change is a valid result.
“Show me your current core.”
Render the current state without inventing missing personality.
“Show me your journey.”
Show factual milestones without fictional levels or XP.
“Review what you remember.”
Memory maintenance can preserve, consolidate, supersede, prune, repair, or conserve.
For people who want the mechanism
The playful UI is presentation. The rules underneath stay strict.
Identity formation, selective memory, Memory maintenance, capability lifecycle, governance, traceability, and host portability remain separate concerns.
Open technical details
Identity formation
Suggestion, candidate, acceptance, and canonical identity are separate stages.
Selective memory
Conversation is evidence. Archive is not memory. Learning a skill does not automatically erase or create formative memory.
Memory maintenance
Long-lived memory is maintained instead of growing forever.
Governance
Write capability is not semantic authority.
Host portability
Model and tool capabilities belong to the host, not the biography.
Traceability
Meaningful durable evolution keeps observable evidence; one instance's biography is not copied into the shared kernel.