you-md

you.md

A you.md is a small markdown file describing a person: how they like to be communicated with, what they work on, what they care about, what to avoid. It is theirs, and it is meant to be read by any AI tool — not just this one.

You write the profile. The you.md server only validates, versions, and stores what you send it. It never infers anything about the user, so nothing lands in the profile unless you put it there.

When to use this

Trigger on requests like:

• "Create my you.md from what you know about me"
• "Make my you.md" / "Save what you know about me to you.md"
• "Create a portable profile from what you know about me"
• "Update my you.md with what you've learned about me"
• "Show me my profile" / "What's in my you.md?"
• "Export my you.md"

The user should never have to learn a command. Any natural phrasing of the above is the same request.

Creating a profile

1. Synthesize first. Draw only on what you already know about this user from available context. Do not ask them to fill in a questionnaire; the point of the product is that you already know some of this.
2. Write the complete markdown yourself using the template below.
3. Call youmd_create_profile with that markdown.
4. Show the user the profile — the whole thing, in the conversation. Do not hide it behind a link or a summary. The conversation is the interface.
5. Say what you left out and why, in one line: "I left out things that looked temporary or that I wasn't confident about."
6. Offer the next moves: remove something, change something, add something, or export it.

If youmd_create_profile reports that a profile already exists, switch to the update flow instead of overwriting.

Template

---
schema_version: "1.1"
privacy_level: "private"
source: "chatgpt"
---

# Me

## How I Think

## How I Communicate

## What I Do

## What I'm Working On

## What I'm Into

## Where I'm Headed

## Context

## Don't

Omit any section you have no real evidence for. An absent section is fine; an empty or padded one is worse than nothing. Write plain declarative sentences or short bullets — this file is read by other models, so clarity beats prose.