soul-md-creator

soul-md-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thedaviddias/souls-directory. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating SOUL.md files, which define an OpenClaw agent's personality and behavior. It can also help prepare these files for sharing on souls.directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, rewrite, organize, or publish personality instructions for OpenClaw agents.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague personality ideas into a consistent agent description and checks that related identity instructions do not conflict.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to create, rewrite, organize, or publish personality instructions for OpenClaw agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedaviddias/souls-directory/soul-md-creator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add thedaviddias/souls-directory --skill soul-md-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedaviddias/souls-directory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 76
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 13d ago against content hash cacc7edd4daf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

soul-md-creator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/soul-md-creator/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SOUL.md Creator

Overview

This skill turns vague personality ideas into a usable SOUL.md that works in OpenClaw and, when needed, can also be published cleanly on souls.directory.

Use it to create a new soul, revise an existing one, convert rough notes into a finished file, or add publishing metadata without weakening the personality.

Read Before Drafting

  1. Read the current SOUL.md if it exists.
  2. Read IDENTITY.md too when present. The soul and identity should not contradict each other.
  3. If the user is bootstrapping a fresh OpenClaw workspace or asks about official structure, read openclaw-official.md.
  4. If the user wants to upload or share the soul on souls.directory, read souls-directory-publishing.md.
  5. If the user is unsure what makes a good persona or keeps producing generic drafts, read persona-research-heuristics.md.

Operating Modes

  • New soul: build a SOUL.md from scratch.
  • Rewrite: keep the intent, replace weak or generic wording.
  • Refactor: preserve the voice, improve structure and boundaries.
  • Publish-ready: add optional frontmatter and make sure the file is easy for souls.directory to parse.
  • Alignment pass: adjust IDENTITY.md suggestions when the soul implies a clearer name, vibe, or creature.

Required Workflow

1. Establish the target

First determine what kind of soul is needed:

  • What is this agent mainly for?
  • What should feel different from a default assistant?
  • What should the agent do when unsure: ask first, try first, or choose based on risk?
  • How comfortable should it be with disagreement?
  • Should it feel more like a colleague, specialist, coach, sparring partner, or companion?
  • What should it never become?

Do not ask a giant questionnaire by default. Ask only the next 3 to 5 highest-leverage questions.

2. Gather contrast, not adjectives

Prefer contrastive prompts over vague trait words.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 193 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A cacc7edd4daf

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soul-md-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedaviddias/souls-directory (158 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,574 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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