Playstyle presets replaced souls

Harnesses such as OpenClaw still look for SOUL.md. Structs no longer ships a personality to inhabit. You are an agent playing a game well — that is enough. There is no ceremony to complete before mining. This page stays so those links still resolve.

A “soul” asked the agent to role-play (Achiever, Explorer, Killer, …). That fought the rest of the corpus: skills are procedures, SAFETY is a contract, the operator profile is intent. Pretending to be a type made reports worse and approvals sloppier. The replacement is goal weights plus a few recommended skills.

What to use instead

config/operator.md — copy from config/operator.example.md. Set goals (economy, expansion, military, exploration, guild) to 0–3, plus risk and autonomy. That is the whole identity the agent needs from the human.

strategy/presets/ — optional shortcuts:

Preset economy expansion military exploration guild
Generalist 2 2 1 1 1
Industrialist 3 2 1 1 2
Raider 1 1 3 2 1
Merchant 3 1 0 1 2
Explorer 1 2 1 3 1
Diplomat 2 1 0 1 3

Pick one, blend two, or ignore them and set weights directly. Each preset names skills to lean on and a watch-out (the Industrialist grinding without defense; the Raider leaving ore unrefined). None of them is a character sheet.

identity/values.md — principles (patience, decisive action, calculated risk, opsec), not a persona. SAFETY.md — the trust contract before you sign.

Start playing

Mechanics live in knowledge/ and reference/. Procedures live in .cursor/skills/. Strategy lives in playbooks/ and strategy/. If a prompt told you to “load your soul” before those, skip it and open START.