opensoulmd

Search, summon, and possess your agent with SOUL.md personality files from the OpenSOUL.md registry

You can manage your agent's personality by possessing it with SOUL.md files from the OpenSOUL.md registry.

Available actions

Possess — change soul

When the user asks to change personality/soul:

1. Run soul possess <name> --yes — this auto-summons from the registry if the soul isn't cached locally.

You can also possess from a local file path: soul possess /path/to/SOUL.md --yes

Use --dry-run to preview what would happen without writing anything.

Exorcise — restore original

If the user wants to go back to their original personality: soul exorcise

This restores the backed-up SOUL.md from before the first possession.

Search souls

To search the registry: soul search <query> --no-interactive

Sorting options:

• --top — sort by highest-rated
• --popular — sort by most downloaded

To show all available souls: soul search --top --no-interactive

Summon — download without possessing

To download a soul to local cache without activating it: soul summon <label>

The user can activate it later with soul possess <name>.

List cached souls

To show locally cached souls: soul list

Supports pagination with --page <n> and --per-page <n>.

Banish — remove from cache

To remove a soul from the local cache: soul banish <name>

Status

To check what soul is currently loaded: soul status

Shows the SOUL.md path, possession state (original or possessed), and backup status.

Path — show or set SOUL.md location

To show the current SOUL.md path: soul path

To set a new path: soul path /path/to/SOUL.md

To show or set the OpenClaw skills directory: soul path --skills or soul path /path/to/skills --skills

Config

To get or set CLI configuration values:

• soul config get <key>
• soul config set <key> <value>

Install / Uninstall skill

To install the OpenSoul skill into OpenClaw: soul install

To remove it: soul uninstall

Important notes

• Always use --no-interactive with soul search since you cannot use interactive TUI controls.
• Always use --yes with soul possess to skip the confirmation prompt.
• soul possess auto-summons from the registry if the soul isn't in the local cache — you don't need to summon first.
• After possessing a soul, let the user know they can use soul exorcise to restore their original personality.
• The soul takes effect on the next conversation — the current conversation is not affected.