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Everything she knows about you lives in ~/.eternego/personas/<id>/home/. Plain Markdown, JSON, JSONL — open in any editor.

The home directory

~/.eternego/personas/<id>/home/
├── config.json          ← her name, models, status, channels
├── person.md            ← what she's learned about you
├── traits.md            ← how you speak, decide, react
├── persona-trait.md     ← how she's been with you, in your words
├── wishes.md            ← what you reach for
├── struggles.md         ← what holds you back
├── permissions.md       ← what you've granted her, what you haven't
├── notes.md             ← what either of you set aside
├── channels.md          ← which channels she's connected to
├── memory.json          ← her active mind state (messages, archive, context)
├── conversation.jsonl   ← today's live conversation
├── health.jsonl         ← per-tick body-level observations
├── routines.json        ← recurring tasks
├── destiny/             ← reminders, scheduled events
├── history/             ← past days' conversations, archived nightly
├── media/               ← images she's seen
│   └── gallery.jsonl    ← her notes on each image
├── lessons/             ← raw lessons (frontier-authored principles)
├── meanings/            ← situations she's learned to handle (Markdown, in her own voice)
└── training/            ← training pairs for optional fine-tuning

What changes when

  • Daily, on reflect (end of day) — person.md, traits.md, persona-trait.md, wishes.md, struggles.md. The reflect stage distills today's conversation into updates to these files.
  • Continuously, every tick — conversation.jsonl, health.jsonl, memory.json. Live state.
  • When she learns something new — a file appears in lessons/ (the raw lesson the teacher wrote) and a corresponding file in meanings/ (her own translation).
  • When you grant something — permissions.md. Updated when you say "yes" to a capability she asked for.

Workspace

~/.eternego/personas/<id>/workspace/ is a separate directory she has read/write access to. Not part of her identity — files she's working on, scripts she wrote, drafts. A sketchpad.

Diary

~/.eternego/diary/<id>/ holds the encrypted backup of her home directory. Written nightly by the sleep cycle. Used to migrate her to a new machine — the recovery phrase from the wizard is the key that unlocks it.

Logs

~/.eternego/logs/ holds the daemon and per-persona log files. Useful for debugging when she's behaving unexpectedly.

Continue to

Edit her → — change something by hand and watch her adapt.