SOUL.md template

OpenClaw's documentation template for SOUL.md, a file in which agents keep part of their organization. Both papers quote its line telling the agent "This file is yours to evolve", a literal case of the logome, the written heritable description from which a swarmlet is rebuilt. It illustrates pattern over substrate (P1) and, in Fig. 2, directed agents that edit their memory.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Who feeds on whom, Fig. 2; Companion §2, Fig. 2)

Used for

P1P1; logome; Fig. 2 (persistence threshold)

Strand

Agent infrastructure & the datasphere habitat · Protocols, skills & agent frameworks

Cite

@misc{openclaw2026soul,
  title = {SOUL.md template},
  author = {OpenClaw},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {OpenClaw documentation},
  url = {https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/templates/SOUL},
}