What is hermes-soul-studio?

Hermes Soul Studio is a browser-based tool that helps you configure a personal AI operator, meaning a long-running AI agent that works across different areas of your life rather than just answering one-off questions. The idea behind it is that a genuinely useful AI operator needs a coherent identity, defined knowledge for each domain it works in, and clear rules about when it should ask for approval before taking action. This tool guides you through building all of that configuration step by step and then downloads it as a ready-to-use folder of Markdown files. The setup process is a five-step wizard. First, you define the operator's identity: its name, its tone, and hard limits on what it should never do. Second, you describe your workspaces, areas like coding, business, creative projects, or finance, each with its own purpose, common tasks, risk level, and approval requirements. Third, you choose which external AI tools the operator can hand work off to, such as Codex for code or Claude for longer reasoning tasks. Fourth, you can optionally generate bridge files so other tools like Cursor or ChatGPT know how to interact with your operator. Fifth, you can opt in to a backup script that saves your configuration locally on an hourly schedule. The output is a downloadable folder containing a SOUL.md file describing identity and boundaries, per-workspace knowledge folders, reusable skill definitions for routing and handoffs between tools, and test prompts to verify the setup works. Everything runs in the browser with no login or cloud account required, so your data stays local the whole time. The tech stack is JavaScript and Next.js, and the project is licensed under MIT.