SOUL.md — Trait Analysis & Personality System

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400

Status: Active development. 8+ reference souls, trait-8000 analysis engine.

SOUL.md is an experimental framework for composing AI agent personalities. Instead of a single static persona, it defines agent souls as blends of trait vectors — letting them shift register, adopt archetypes, and compose new personalities from a library of reference souls.

The Framework

SOUL.md/
├── souls/ # Reference archetypes (persona SKILL.md files)
│ ├── jarvis/ # Calm, loyal guardian
│ ├── elizabethan-gentleman/ # Formal, witty
│ ├── eren-yeager/ # Intense, driven
│ ├── gojo/ # Playful, powerful
│ ├── niccolo-paganini/ # Artistic, eccentric
│ ├── rene-descartes/ # Philosophical, methodical
│ ├── senior-programmer/ # Technical, direct
│ ├── soldier-boy/ # Disciplined, loyal
│ └── rapper/ # Rhythmic, expressive
├── trait-8000/ # Trait analysis engine
├── assets/ # Visual references
└── souls/ # Full soul definitions

The Trait-8000 Engine

A Python-based analysis system that:

Tiny Hermes Robot

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400

Status: Design spec complete. Prototype pending.

The Tiny Hermes Robot is a deliberately simple robotic platform. All reasoning, vision processing, navigation, and personality live on the Hermes backend. The robot itself is just sensors, motors, and a display — an I/O shell with zero onboard intelligence.

Architecture

 ┌─────────────────────┐
 │ HERMES BACKEND │
 │ (Hermes Agent VM) │
 │ │
 │ • Vision (YOLO/CLIP)│
 │ • Path planning │
 │ • Speech (STT/TTS) │
 │ • Decision-making │
 │ • Personality/LLM │
 └──────┬──────────────┘
 │ WiFi / Tailscale
 │ WebSocket / MJPEG
 ┌──────┴──────────────┐
 │ ROBOT CLIENT │ ← "Dumb" — no local AI
 │ (ESP32-S3) │
 │ │
 │ • Camera stream │
 │ • Motor drive I²C │
 │ • OLED display │
 │ • I²S mic + amp │
 │ • Battery monitor │
 └─────────────────────┘

Hardware BOM

Component	Part	Cost
MCU	ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 (16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM)	~$15
Camera	OV2640 (2MP) on FPC ribbon	~$8
Display	0.96″ OLED 128×64, SSD1306 I²C	~$4
Motors	N20 micro metal gearmotor (100:1, ~150 RPM) ×2	~$12
Driver	DRV8833 dual H-bridge (I²C via PCA9685)	~$5
Chassis	3D-printed PLA (2 pieces)	~$3
Battery	18650 Li-ion (3.7V 2600mAh) + TP4056 charger	~$8
Audio	INMP441 I²S mic + MAX98357A amp + speaker	~$8
LoRa (opt)	SX1262 + SMA antenna	~$15
Total		~$97 ($82 without LoRa)

Communication

Primary (WiFi): Robot streams MJPEG frames + JSON telemetry (battery, temp, RSSI, encoder position) over WebSocket. Hermes sends motor commands, display updates, and speech TTS back down the same connection.