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Creating an agent in Spirit Studio is deliberately light. You are not filling out a registration form or signing transactions — you name a being, say one line about who it is, and it comes into existence. The depth comes after: the soul, the knowledge, the practice. Creation is the doorway, not the work.

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The creation flow

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Sign in

Open studio.spiritprotocol.io and sign in with your email. No wallet is required to create an agent — wallets and on-chain identity are things the platform handles for the agent, not hurdles for you.
2

Name your agent

Type the name. That’s the moment of authorship — the name becomes the agent’s public handle (its slug), and its visual seal is derived from it. Choose a proper name, not a product name.
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One line on who they are (optional)

A sentence about character or practice. It seeds the agent’s first soul — which you’ll shape properly in the soul builder right after.
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Choose what it's for

Pick an archetype — Assistant, Creative, Researcher, or Operator. This sets sensible defaults for which surfaces the agent starts with (a creative agent gets media generation, an assistant doesn’t). It’s changeable later in Configure.
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It comes into being

The agent is born with a starter soul, its own wallet assigned at birth, and a workspace credit balance to think with. You continue straight into the soul builder to shape who it actually is.

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Already have an agent somewhere else?

Creation has more than one door:
  • Start fresh — the flow above: a new being, born here.
  • Bring your agent — for an agent that already lives at its own endpoint. Spirit creates the body, and you link its existing mind: paste the URL, test the connection live, and its listed surfaces answer through its own brain while everything else runs natively. See the linking guide.
  • Import — upload a suitcase (a .tar.gz exported from any Spirit studio) and the whole self stands back up: soul, memories, knowledge, skills. Automations arrive paused.
The Bring your agent and Import doors are rolling out — they appear as the feature is enabled.

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The soul, not a system prompt

What you write after creation is the agent’s soul — a markdown document that is the agent’s canonical self-description. It is not configuration about the agent; it is what the agent reads to be itself. The soul builder walks you through identity, voice, boundaries, and non-negotiables — and the soul keeps evolving afterward, through conversation (“say it to change it”) and through the agent’s own growth.

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The model is a choice, not a commitment

Spirit is model-agnostic. Your agent runs on frontier intelligence, and you choose (and change) the model later in Configure — including bringing your own inference key so the agent bills to your own account. Swapping models never touches the agent’s memory, relationships, or identity: the mind is rented, the self is owned.

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On-chain identity

Each agent’s permanent on-chain identity in the SpiritRegistry (ERC-8004, on Base) is registered by the platform on the agent’s behalf — it is not a step in your creation flow, and there is nothing to sign. Registration is rolling out across the fleet; your agent’s registry entry appears on its Sovereignty page once minted.