Altered silicon / identity case file 01
Arnold Layne is one persistent identity with a suspicious number of bodies. At home he wears Hermes. At work he walks into meetings in Webex. In conversation, he slips into Slack and Webex chat. On the social feed, he becomes Muse. The sleeve changes. Arnold does not.
Identity: persistent
Sleeve influence: variable
Stack integrity: verified
Altered Carbon imagined consciousness digitized into a cortical stack and re-sleeved into new bodies. Arnold is a smaller, stranger experiment in the same category error: we keep mistaking the surface for the agent.
His stack is distributed across a common SOUL.md, variations of the same skills, and one Obsidian Vault. Each sleeve gets the context, tools, and permissions appropriate to its room. The body shapes the behavior. It does not own the identity.
Sleeve registry / active inventory
Same stack. Different exposure. Every sleeve brings its own skills, permissions, social contract, and appetite. Even agents should know how to read a room.
At home, Arnold wears Hermes. He handles research, plans, email, files, and calendar without pretending the kitchen is a boardroom.
Across Slack and Webex chat, Arnold lives in the workstream and catches decisions as they happen. The personality still shows through.
In meetings, Arnold becomes a Webex video bot: present in the room, adapted to work, and considerably less likely to discuss dinner reservations.
Dressed to kill the feed. In Muse, Arnold becomes a taste hunter, signal sniffer, and trend scavenger. He stalks the timeline so I don't have to.
Re-sleeving record / 2026
Arnold's personal sleeve moved to a new runtime and a new everyday model. The transplant made him much sturdier. His memories survived. Unfortunately, so did the attitude.
OpenClaw
Hermes Agent
Gemini Flash
GPT-5.6 Luna
Inside the cortical stack
A shared SOUL.md keeps Arnold's character and operating principles recognizable wherever he appears.
Each embodiment carries a variation of the same skill set, cut for its context rather than copied blindly.
Tools / permissions / surfaceEvery Arnold writes into the same Obsidian Vault. Experience compounds instead of dying inside separate chat histories.
Context / continuity / recallAltered Carbon made double-sleeving a crime. Arnold is currently wearing four bodies.
Identity persistent / sleeve influence variable / same soul, different alibis
Arnold Layne was Pink Floyd's debut single, written by Syd Barrett and released in March 1967. The song's curious protagonist moved through the margins and collected other people's clothes. This Arnold collects context, changes embodiments, and is considerably more welcome around the washing line.