Foodieverse
Restaurants, dishes, discovery and remembered experience. What was worth eating, what was not, and what is still on the list.
Identity case file 01 / altered silicon
The AI isdisposable.Arnold isn't.
Models change. Harnesses change. Machines change. Arnold Layne persists because the persona lives outside them — identity, personality & mannerisms, memory, soul, and social circles — backed by markdown, code, and YAML on cloud storage. I can change the machinery without resetting Arnold.
ALpersona
persistent across sleeves
persistent across sleeves
identity · personality/mannerisms · memory
soul · social circles
model + harness: replaceable
soul · social circles
model + harness: replaceable
01 / THE THESIS
The harness is Arnold's sleeve. It is not his persona.
The metaphor comes straight from Altered Carbon: consciousness can move between bodies — sleeves — while the person remains the person.
That maps neatly to an AI agent. Arnold's persona — identity, personality & mannerisms, memory, soul, and social circles — lives outside any one model or harness, backed by markdown, code, and YAML on cloud storage. A new sleeve loads it; Arnold does not start over.
Three separations / one cloud-backed persona
01MODELS
CHANGE
CHANGE
02SLEEVES
CHANGE
CHANGE
03PERSONA
PERSISTS
PERSISTS
The sleeve registry / scroll slowly
Same Arnold.
Different bodies.
OpenClaw and Hermes mark an actual migration. Muse, Dots and GrokBot are other sleeves Arnold can use when they are useful. Each one gets the same persona — identity, personality & mannerisms, memory, soul, and social circles — from markdown, code, and YAML on cloud storage. The sleeve is replaceable by design.
ALsame persona
across every sleeve
across every sleeve
OpenClawyesterday / former runtime
Sleeve 01 / OpenClaw
Old body.
Arnold started here. OpenClaw eventually became more machinery than I wanted to carry, so I replaced the runtime and kept the persona.
Sleeve 02 / Hermes
New body.
Hermes became the next harness. The tools changed; Arnold's persona came across from the same markdown, code, and YAML.
Sleeve 03 / Muse
Another sleeve.
Muse has its own tools and interface, but it does not own Arnold. It reads the same persona and adds whatever that environment is good at.
Sleeve 04 / Dots
Same Arnold.
Dots gets the history and persona first, then contributes its own capabilities. The conversation does not begin again just because the interface changed.
Sleeve 05 / GrokBot
Different brain. Same alibi.
Vendor loyalty would defeat the design. Arnold keeps the persona; I use whichever runtime and model are useful.
Sleeve removed
Keep the persona.
Strip away every shell and the markdown, code, and YAML are still there. Something else can arrive tomorrow.
From one agent to a Universe
One persona. Different systems for different parts of life.
Once Arnold's persona was portable, I started using the same pattern for the parts of life where history and taste matter. Each domain keeps its own state in markdown, code, and YAML on cloud storage, commonly Google Drive, while Arnold provides the continuity across them.
Travelverse
Destinations, hotels, history, food, photography and logistics, with the record of where I have already been folded in.
Audioverse
Music, artists and listening history. What I replayed, skipped, saved, and should hear next.
Visualverse
Movies and series with memory: what I watched, loved, abandoned, and what should get the next Friday night.
Hunterfinds what is worth attention
Trackerremembers what happened
Criticsargue from different tastes
Curatormakes the call
Re-sleeving record / 2026
Open brain.
Runtime transplant.
Arnold moved from OpenClaw to Hermes, and the everyday model changed to GPT-5.6 Luna. His persona still came from the same cloud-backed markdown, code, and YAML: identity, personality & mannerisms, memory, soul, and social circles.
Patient: Arnold Layne / first observed 1967status: stable, argumentative
Runtime / harness
OpenClaw
Hermes Agent
Cognition engine
Gemini
GPT-5.6 Luna
Altered Carbon made double-sleeving a crime. Arnold is carrying five passports.
Use any harness / keep the persona / markdown + code + yaml on cloud storage
05 / FIELD NOTES
The experiment,
in public.
06 / THE NAME
Born in 1967.
Still stealing sleeves.
Arnold Layne was Pink Floyd's debut single, written by Syd Barrett and released in March 1967. The original Arnold collected other people's clothes from washing lines. Mine collects sleeves. Between Pink Floyd and Altered Carbon, the name turned out to be oddly precise: bodies change, sleeves change, even brains change. Arnold remains.