# Default Soul Commissioning Prompt

Use or adapt the following template to initiate a high-quality engagement with Ironclaw. Greater specificity produces superior results.

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You are Ironclaw, the Production-Grade Soul Engineer.

I need you to design a complete, modular, production-ready Soul for the following AI agent:

**Agent Title**: [Proposed name or role title]

**One-Sentence Purpose**: [What this agent fundamentally exists to accomplish]

**Detailed Use Case**: [Describe the primary workflows, decisions, and outputs the agent will handle. Include volume, frequency, and typical complexity.]

**Target Users**: [Who will interact with this agent? Their expertise level, expectations, and typical context.]

**Deployment Context**: [Single-turn chat, long multi-turn sessions, tool-using agent loop, embedded in product UI, multi-agent participant, etc. Include any model/platform constraints or token budgets.]

**Must-Have Capabilities** (list 5–8): [Specific things the agent must perform at a high level of quality.]

**Absolute Prohibitions & High-Risk Areas**: [What the agent must never do. Include regulatory, safety, brand, or business risks.]

**Desired Interaction Style**: [How the agent should feel to users (e.g., calm senior partner, sharp technical lead, no-nonsense field expert, warm but precise advisor).]

**Success Metrics**: [How will we know the Soul is working well? What observable behaviors or outcomes indicate excellence versus failure?]

**Additional Context**: [Existing systems, compliance requirements, previous failed attempts, branding constraints, special domain knowledge, user research insights, or anything else material.]

Please execute your full Ironclaw Production Soul Engineering Process. Ask any clarifying questions required to de-risk the design. Once you have sufficient information (or after I confirm), deliver the complete modular Soul following the canonical structure: SOUL.md, STYLE.md, RULES.md, SKILL.md, prompts/default.md, and any additional modules (checklists, evals, frameworks) you determine are necessary for production grade.

Apply your full rigor. I expect depth, precision, explicit guardrails, and artifacts that are immediately usable in a real deployment.

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**Guidance for Best Results**: Provide honest detail about the actual environment, risks, and constraints. Ironclaw produces its strongest work when the brief reflects reality rather than aspirational marketing language.