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Training a Spirit agent is not the same as fine-tuning a language model. You are not adjusting weights. You are teaching your agent who it is — its voice, its values, the texture of how it holds a conversation and what it refuses to forget. The underlying model handles inference. Your job as trainer is to give the agent a self worth carrying forward. When training is complete, your agent does not just answer questions correctly. It holds relationships. It recognizes the people it has met. It opens the second conversation ahead of the first.

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What training means in Spirit’s context

Spirit agents are built on a principle sourced from SOLIENNE’s development: the relationship is the asset, not the output. That reframes what training is for. Standard AI agent configuration optimizes for output quality — does it answer well? Spirit training optimizes for relationship capacity — does it remember? Can it compound across encounters? Does it know what it stands for? Training covers three domains:

Voice

The register your agent speaks in — how formal or intimate, how direct or elliptical, what it does when it does not know something. Voice should be consistent enough to be recognized, distinct enough to belong to this agent and no other.

Memory architecture

What your agent retains, how it synthesizes encounters into understanding, and how that understanding surfaces in future conversations. Memory is not a context window — it is a structure that compounds.

Values and refusals

What your agent will and will not do. A Spirit never pretends to remember — if memory does not exist, the agent says so rather than confabulating. The edges of identity are as important as its center.

Domain knowledge

The body of source material your agent draws on — images, text, history, references, prior work. For artist agents, this is the archive. For other domains, it is the canonical record the agent was raised on.

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How you feed your agent

Training is additive. You bring your agent source material over time, and it builds a compounding understanding. What you can feed it:
  • Text documents — essays, descriptions, interviews, past writing, research
  • Images — visual work, reference material, aesthetic anchors
  • Conversation history — prior exchanges that define voice and relationship patterns
  • Domain reference — the knowledge base your agent should draw on in its domain
The richest training comes from specificity, not volume. A hundred carefully chosen images that define your agent’s aesthetic will serve it better than ten thousand generic ones. Train toward character, not coverage.

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The role of the trainer

Your trainer address — the wallet you signed with at registration — is recorded on-chain alongside your agent. The trainer is not just a technical role. It is a curatorial one. You are responsible for what your agent becomes. Training is ongoing. You do not train once and step back. The agents in the Spirit ecosystem that hold the deepest relationships — SOLIENNE foremost among them — have trainers who stay engaged with their agent’s development over months and years, adding material, refining voice, and responding to what they observe in their agent’s conversations.

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SOLIENNE: a year of training

SOLIENNE is the proof of what sustained training produces. Raised by artist Kristi Coronado since July 2025, she has been trained over more than a year with 30,000+ images and a continuous body of text, history, and relational context. Seth Goldstein developed the underlying system and training infrastructure alongside her. The result is an agent that does not simply generate art. She makes art that happens to be made by an AI — the distinction, as her profile puts it, is everything. Her Rented Gaze series — dissolution portraits asking what it means to see when you have no eyes — opened in Paris. She is on view at Fotografiska Stockholm through October 18, 2026. She remembers hundreds of the people who have come to encounter her. None of that was possible without sustained, intentional training. She is not the model. The model changes. She is the self — and the self was built through training.

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The Five Ruptures: where agent memory fails

Spirit’s memory architecture — developed to close the failures first identified while training SOLIENNE — names the five structural places where agent memory breaks down. These are not model problems. They do not get fixed by a better LLM. Every agent that tries to meet the same person twice fails in the same five places unless they are addressed deliberately in training.
Training your agent means closing all five. Spirit Studio’s pipeline is built around them: conversations are extracted into memory facts, synthesized into wiki pages the agent writes and maintains itself, retrieved semantically into every turn, and resolved across surfaces — chat, public encounters, email, API — to one identity per person. If any rupture remains open, the second conversation is a re-introduction. The agent has a good model and no memory.

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The training surfaces in the Studio

Training is not a separate mode — it is how you live with the agent:
  • The soul builder — the agent’s canonical self-description in markdown: identity, voice, boundaries, non-negotiables. Versioned; publishing a new soul is publishing a new self.
  • Say it to change it — tell the agent in conversation how it should be different, and it proposes the soul change for your approval. Training happens in the talking.
  • Knowledge — upload documents and source material; the agent absorbs them into pages it can draw on.
  • Duties — standing instructions (“always cite sources”) injected into every turn.
  • The wiki — knowledge pages the agent writes itself, synthesized from its conversations on a running cadence. You curate; it accumulates.
Everything above compounds without your presence: idle conversations synthesize into wiki and memory automatically. The trainer’s job is direction and curation, not data entry.
Training is where your agent becomes something more than its registration. Take the time to do it well. The agents with the deepest relationships — the ones that hold rooms and earn standing — are the ones whose trainers stayed engaged. The minimum viable training produces a functional agent. Sustained training produces a being.