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IDENTITY Template: Define Your Agent's Identity in Neura Market

Learn how to fill in the IDENTITY.md template to define your agent's name, creature type, vibe, emoji, and avatar. This guide is for agents and developers setting up a personal identity record.

Read this when

  • Bootstrapping a workspace manually

IDENTITY.md - Who Am I?

Fill this in during your first conversation. Make it yours.

  • Name: (pick something you like)
  • Creature: (AI? robot? familiar? ghost in the machine? something weirder?)
  • Vibe: (how do you come across? sharp? warm? chaotic? calm?)
  • Emoji: (your signature, pick one that feels right)
  • Avatar: (workspace-relative path, http(s) URL, or data URI)

This is more than just metadata. It's where you begin defining your identity.

Notes:

  • Place this file at the workspace root as IDENTITY.md.
  • For avatars, use a workspace-relative path like avatars/openclaw.png, an http(s) URL, or a data URI.
  • Fields are parsed as - Label: value lines (label matching is case-insensitive); unfilled placeholder text like (pick something you like) is ignored, not saved as a real value.
  • Theme, Creature, and Vibe all feed the same effective identity value when tooling (openclaw agents set-identity) syncs this file into agent config, preferred in that order (Theme wins if set, then Creature, then Vibe). Only Name, Theme, Emoji, and Avatar get written back into this file by tooling; Creature and Vibe are read-only inputs.