soul.md
Your identity, not theirs.
An open format for your AI identity — values, voice, skills, taste. One plaintext file you own, version in git, and carry between tools. Manoma is the MCP server that makes any LLM read it.
User-owned
Your soul.md lives on your machine, in your repo, in your hands. No cloud, no account, no vendor.
Portable
Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zenflow, and any MCP-aware client. One install, every assistant.
Built to outlive models
Git-diffable. Forkable. Versioned. A file format, not a walled garden.
Install
One block in your Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Zenflow config.
{
"mcpServers": {
"manoma": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "manoma-mcp"]
}
}
}Restart your client and send a message. On first run, manoma creates a starter ~/soul.md and the assistant welcomes you with what just happened. Open the file, fill in the placeholders, and you're done. Full Quick Start →
Want a richer starting point?
The auto-bootstrapped soul.md is intentionally minimal. For more to start with, copy a role template (founder, engineer, designer, PM) over ~/soul.md, or build one interactively with the web builder. Either way you end up with plain markdown you can edit in any text editor.
No MCP client? Just paste it.
Drop your soul.md into any AI tool's custom-instructions field — ChatGPT Custom Instructions, Claude Projects, Gemini Gems, Cursor Rules, Copilot instructions. You lose smart injection and write-back, but the identity layer works anywhere.