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A skill shipped with ByteDance's DeerFlow agent framework for creating or updating the SOUL.md file that defines a DeerFlow agent's identity.
What the skill teaches
A skill shipped with ByteDance's DeerFlow agent framework for creating or updating the SOUL.md file that defines a DeerFlow agent's identity. Through a short, friendly conversation in up to four rounds, asking one to three questions at a time, the agent learns the user's language, role and needs, the personality, style and autonomy they want from the agent, and its limits. It then fills in a bundled template, keeps the result under 300 words using only what the user said, shows the draft for approval, and saves it through DeerFlow's setup_agent tool rather than by writing files itself, reporting any error instead of claiming success.
Capabilities
- Interview the user about an agent's role and personality
- Draft a SOUL.md identity file under 300 words
- Revise the draft until the user approves
- Save the identity through DeerFlow's setup_agent tool
About
- Publisher
- ByteDance
Install
The project doesn't document install steps that we could confirm. See the project's own instructions
What's inside
- references/conversation-guide.md
- templates/SOUL.template.md
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Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Publisher | ByteDance | source |
| Official status | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | MIT | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202685,246 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
Copies of this skill in other repositories (1)
These differ from this skill's text. They may be adapted copies or older versions.
- bootstrapljxpython/ai-agent-platform
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/bytedance/deer-flow · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/bytedance/deer-flow · Backs: Licence, Publisher, ActivityNov 11, 2026
- Folder in the repository (bootstrap)github.com/bytedance/deer-flow · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026