A life operating system your agent runs with you.
A clone-and-go markdown template for your whole life — principles, vision, goals, areas, projects. Your AI agent surfaces, connects, and challenges. You decide and author.
The one rule
You decide and commit. The agent organizes, connects, surfaces, and challenges — but never silently authors your life.
Every design choice in the kit serves that rule. It is what makes it safe to hand an agent your whole life: the corpus stops being yours the moment something else authors it.
The spine: horizons of focus
Your daily actions connect all the way up to who you want to be. The agent's core job is keeping these layers coherent — flagging the project that serves no goal, the goal that contradicts a principle, the area you've starved all week.
| Horizon | What lives there |
|---|---|
| Principles | What you stand for |
| Vision | Who you're becoming, 3–5 years out |
| Goals | Outcomes with success criteria, 6–24 months |
| Areas | Roles and standards you maintain, ongoing |
| Projects | Finite outcomes with a finish line |
| Actions | Daily capture, plans, and reviews |
How it works
Clone the template
Use it as a GitHub template to create your own private repo, or clone it locally. Your content lives in
your-life/, gitignored by default.Point your agent at
AGENTS.mdTell your agent to read
AGENTS.mdand everything insteering/. That is the whole operating contract — it works with Claude Code or any agent that can read files.Run the foundation session
The agent interviews you across five passes — principles, vision, areas, goals, projects — and drafts candidates you rewrite. From there it's a daily, weekly, and monthly loop.
Walked through step by step on the quick start.
What's in it
Plain markdown, all of it. The modules are the method; the persona lenses are how the agent asks better questions.
steering/
The method — philosophy, methodology, cadence, coherence, privacy, tone. Your agent reads it every session.
templates/
One template per artifact: principle, vision, goal, area, project, habit, decision, review.
personas/
Lenses the agent adopts to interview and challenge you, so reflection doesn't collapse into the same three questions.
AGENTS.md
The agent-neutral operating contract. Point any capable agent at it.
.claude/
Claude Code accelerators: persona subagents, slash commands, and an overdue-review nudge.
your-life/
Your content — gitignored by default. The structure is committed; the corpus stays yours.
Persona lenses
- Intake
- Journalist
- Coach
- Skeptic
- Therapist
- Stoic
- Future-Self
- Forensic-Auditor
- Biographer
Privacy, plainly
No backend. Your content stays in your own repo. We never see it.
There is nothing to sign into and no server holding your life. Your corpus is files on your machine, gitignored by default; you choose whether to version it in a private repo or keep it local only. Your agent's provider sees whatever you put in a session, so pick a provider whose data policy you accept.
Start your first session
Specs for the self: the discipline you'd apply to a system, applied to a life. Start rough, revise forever.