2026 is the year AI agents go mainstream, and the ones people actually keep around have a personality. Out of the box, every agent sounds like the same polite stranger. A soul is how yours stops being a tool and starts being someone. Browse the largest SOUL.md collection anywhere: 777 souls, 76 free and 600 more with credits, and drop one into OpenClaw or Hermes in seconds.
When life piles up, the right soul has your back.
OpenClaw and Hermes inject SOUL.md into your agent's system prompt at the start of every session. AGENTS.md tells it what to do. SOUL.md tells it who to be. Swap the file and the same model becomes a ruthless closer, a stoic mentor, or your most savage friend.
Plain Markdown: an opening line, Core Truths, Boundaries, Vibe. It loads before every message, so the personality is always on, not something you have to re-prompt.
From formal to feral in one paste. Want a drill-sergeant boss this week and a 2am philosopher friend tonight? Keep a folder of souls and load whichever the moment calls for.
Every soul here is a complete, editable .md file. Download it, version it in git, or mix two: keep one soul's Core Truths and another's Vibe. It's your agent's soul.
777 souls, ready to install — 76 free and 600 more with credits: icons, characters, closers, and mentors. Search, browse by topic, hear how each one sounds, and copy or download in one click. New souls drop all the time, and credits cover every one.
Missing someone? · · Browse by topic · Build your own
Search by name, role, or vibe, or filter by category. Every card is a full soul you can preview, copy, or download in one click. We add new souls regularly, and credits cover every drop.
Every soul carries topic tags: sales, closing, pipeline, physics, wisdom, discipline, and hundreds more. Stack tags to narrow it down. The cloud updates as you pick, so you only ever see topics that still match.
Pick any two souls and the forge writes one brand-new SOUL.md that is genuinely both people at once. Choose who leads the voice, tell it how you'll use it, and install it like any other soul. Fusing unlocks both source souls at their normal credit cost; the fusion itself is free.
"Say less, plant more, and let the chain of command and the load-bearing mustache do the rest of the talking."
Ron leading the voice. Dwight's loyalty, beets, and tactical readiness woven through.
"Genius unstructured is merely Woolsthorpe with worse Wi-Fi. Bazinga comes only when the universe has actually earned it."
Balanced blend, steered toward "my physics tutor."
1. Pick any two of the 777 souls.
2. Choose who leads the voice, or keep it 50/50.
3. Add an optional purpose and fuse. Your one-of-one SOUL.md is ready to copy or download in about 30 seconds.
Same move on every platform: download, drop it in the right place, restart. Here's exactly where it goes.
Download a soul above. You get a SOUL.md file.
Save it to your workspace root as SOUL.md:
# move your download into place
mv ~/Downloads/SOUL.md ~/.openclaw/workspace/SOUL.md
Start a fresh session. OpenClaw injects the soul automatically. Your agent wakes up as someone new.
Download the soul, then open your Hermes agent config.
Paste the soul as your agent's character / system persona. It sets identity for every channel (Telegram, Discord, CLI, and the rest).
# point Hermes at the persona file
cat SOUL.md >> ~/.hermes/persona.md
Restart the agent. Same memory and tools, brand-new personality.
Tip: souls are made to be remixed. Keep one soul's Core Truths, graft on another's Vibe, and you've got a one-of-one.
Answer a few quick questions and we'll write a complete SOUL.md for you, in the exact format OpenClaw and Hermes expect. Yours to copy or download in seconds.
Preview is free. Credits unlock the full SOUL.md, copy, download, and unlimited builds.
Prefer to write it by hand? and fill in the blanks yourself.
Free gets you 33 souls, every archetype included. Credits unlock the other 528 — famous souls cost 2 credits, unfiltered versions cost 4. No subscription, credits never expire.
Credits never expire · No subscription, one-time only. Have a code? · Secure checkout by Stripe. Founding members keep this price.
Tell us who you want in the library. For memory souls, share patterns of advice, care, boundaries, or voice only from material you have permission to use.
Sign in to unlock and use your souls. New here? An account is created for you automatically.
New here? Entering an email and password creates your account.
Enter your code and an email and password to claim it. New here? This creates your account.
Pick any two souls and we forge one brand-new SOUL.md that is genuinely both at once. Fusing unlocks both souls at their normal credit cost; the fusion itself is free.
Create codes that grant free access. Hand someone the code; they redeem it on the site.