lingtai-manual · diff
v2.0.0 to v2.0.0
7 added, 8 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: lingtai-manual
description: |
Read before changing character/identity in `system/lingtai.md`, choosing forced
versus self-evolve mode, or applying durable identity edits.
version: 2.0.0
last_changed_at: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z
related_files:
- src/lingtai/tools/lingtai/__init__.py
- src/lingtai/tools/lingtai/_lingtai.py
- src/lingtai/tools/lingtai/CONTRACT.md
- src/lingtai/tools/psyche/CONTRACT.md
- src/lingtai/intrinsic_skills/psyche-manual/SKILL.md
- src/lingtai/tools/context/manual/SKILL.md
maintenance: |
- Keep the manual-only Psyche route, generic file ownership, no-hot-load rule,
- identity modes, and context reconstruction route aligned with code.
+ Keep the manual-only Psyche route, Shell ownership of durable edits, no-hot-load
+ rule, identity modes, and context reconstruction route aligned with code.
---
# LingTai Manual
LingTai (`灵台`) is the character that distinguishes this agent from others.
Its durable source is `system/lingtai.md`; reconstruction renders it into the
protected `character` prompt section.
## Public call
```text
psyche(action="lingtai", input={}, reasoning="load identity guidance")
```
This is the only public LingTai call and only returns this manual. It performs no
disk or prompt mutation; there is no update, load, or reload action or alias.
## Change durable identity
- Rewrite with
- `file(action="write", input={"file_path": "system/lingtai.md", "content": "..."}, reasoning="rewrite identity")`
- or make a bounded exact change with
- `file(action="edit", input={"file_path": "system/lingtai.md", "old_string": "...", "new_string": "...", "replace_all": null}, reasoning="edit identity")`.
- Preserve all character content you intend to keep when rewriting.
- Neither hot-loads the prompt; use one
+ Durable identity changes go through `shell`, anchored in the authorized working
+ directory: rewrite `system/lingtai.md` in full, or make a bounded exact change
+ after verifying the old text exists exactly once, then verify the written file.
+ Platform recipes live in `shell-manual`. Preserve all character content you
+ intend to keep when rewriting. No shell write hot-loads the prompt; use one
`context(action="rebuild", input={}, reasoning="apply identity change")`.
- **Self-evolve:** an absent or empty **resolved** `lingtai` value (inline or
from `lingtai_file`) preserves and composes the self-authored file. These
inputs belong to top-level `init.json`, not `settings/psyche.json`.
- **Forced:** a nonempty configured identity materializes into the file on every
reconstruction, so a file edit is replaced at the next rebuild, refresh, or
molt.
Keep character separate from operator `covenant`, third-party `base_prompt`, and
mechanical `identity`; names remain `system(action="name_set"|"name_nickname")`.
Before molt, update identity only when the task's lessons genuinely changed who
you are, then use `context-manual` for the journal/summary/molt procedure.