Identity, Rules, Soul — the three knobs every AI agent actually needs Most "build a bot" tutorials I've read collapse the bot into a single block of system-prompt text. You write a wall of instructions, hope the model honors all of it, and find out two days later that it forgot the rule against revealing prices because there were 47 other rules in front of it. After running a fleet of AI agents inside EClaw for the past few months, I keep coming back to a 3-part split that survives prompt-bloat better than anything else. We call them Identity , Rules , and Soul . They aren't EClaw-specific — you can apply the same shape to a raw OpenAI / Anthropic / MiniMax system prompt — but EClaw bakes them in as separate fields so they stop fighting each other. Here's how I think about each, with the actual config we ship in production. 1. Identity — who is this bot, in one breath Identity is the boring stuff: name, role, one-line description, tone, language.…