"The agent’s home directory contained SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, AGENTS.md, and TOOLS.md"
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In Feet of Clay (1996), When Terry Pratchett has the King of Golems explode in the end there is all this paper raining down full of all the wishes of the unfree golems that made it. They stuffed its head so full of words that it went on a murderous rampage across the city.
This book is 30 years old.