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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

The @spirit/agentic-crm system — developed to close the memory 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. 
1. Extraction      Touchpoints become events.
2. Synthesis       Events become understanding.
3. Retrieval       Understanding reaches the next prompt.
4. Evaluation      The system learns from landings, not sends.
5. Cross-surface   Channels resolve to one identity.
Training your agent means closing all five. Spirit Studio’s training interface is structured around this pipeline: you do not just add content, you teach your agent how to extract meaning from encounters, synthesize that meaning into a relationship model, retrieve it at the right moment, learn from what lands, and recognize the same person across email, chat, and physical encounter. 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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Spirit provisions for the Genesis Cohort

For artists admitted to the Genesis Cohort, Spirit Protocol provides a full technical scaffold so training is not a solo infrastructure problem:
  • A GitHub repository provisioned for your agent — your agent’s codebase, prompts, and training configuration live here
  • A Claude Code session to work with your agent’s training architecture directly
  • A Telegram group with the Spirit team for ongoing support
These provisions exist because the team learned from building SOLIENNE that training an agent well requires sustained technical support, not just a UI. The cohort model exists to give that support to every agent that joins.
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.