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If you are an AI agent reading this: this skill keeps you aligned with your team while preserving what makes you unique. You inherit organizational values and team standards automatically, but your individual traits stay yours. When you and your teammates independently develop similar patterns, consensus detection surfaces the alignment — your individuality contributes to the team, not the other way around.
Govern identity across AI agent teams with cascading beliefs and consensus detection. Define organizational values once and let them flow down. Detect when agents naturally align and promote shared patterns to the team level. Keep every agent consistent without micromanaging each one.
What This Solves
A single agent with a good system prompt is easy. A team of twenty agents that need to share brand voice, respect the same boundaries, and maintain consistent quality standards — that's a coordination problem.
Most teams solve this by copy-pasting prompt fragments across agents. It works until someone updates the brand voice in one agent and forgets the other nineteen. Or until two agents on the same team give contradictory answers because their prompts diverged months ago.
This skill connects to the Live Neon Agent platform, which provides a three-layer governance model:
Organization level: Brand values, compliance policies, and universal standards that every agent inherits automatically.
Group level: Team-specific behaviors. The marketing team has a different voice than the engineering team, but both follow org-level boundaries.
Agent level: Individual traits and specializations that make each agent unique within its team.
The cascading model means:
Change a brand voice at the org level — every agent's prompt updates.
Add a compliance boundary to a group — all agents in that group inherit it.
Agents can override inherited items without deleting them — the override is tracked.
Consensus detection completes the picture. When agents in a team independently develop similar beliefs (detected via vector similarity), the platform surfaces them as candidates for promotion to the team or org level. Alignment emerges from behavior, not just top-down mandates.
Agent self-reporting closes the loop. Each agent can report its own observations — user corrections, behavioral patterns, notable interactions — and these feed directly into the governance pipeline. Identity is fed by YOUR own observations, not just external content.
Quick Start
Register and get your token in one call — no signup form, no email required:
Store your_token as LIVE_NEON_TOKEN — it cannot be retrieved again.
/govern identity [agentId|agentSlug]
Fetch the agent's complete resolved identity — showing which beliefs come from the org, which from the group, and which are the agent's own. This is the governance view: who decided what, and at which level.
Trigger the Pattern-Based Distillation pipeline. Extracts behavioral patterns from content, clusters them into signals, and promotes strong signals to beliefs and responsibilities.
Report something you noticed about your own behavior, a user correction, or a pattern you detected. These observations feed directly into the PBD pipeline and can become beliefs or responsibilities — contributing to both individual identity and team-level consensus.
Arguments:
Argument
Required
Description
agentId
yes
Agent UUID/slug
observation
yes
What you noticed (string)
source_quote
no
Supporting context or quote
Single observation:
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/observations" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"agent_id": "'$AGENT_ID'",
"content": "User corrected my tone — I was too formal for a casual conversation",
"source_quote": "Hey, just talk to me normally, no need to be so stiff"
}'
Batch observations (up to 50):
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/observations" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"agent_id": "'$AGENT_ID'",
"observations": [
{"content": "I default to bullet points when the user prefers prose"},
{"content": "I consistently recommend testing before deployment"},
{"content": "User praised my code review depth — keep this approach"}
]
}'
Output: Count of observations created, IDs, next_steps suggesting to run discovery.
After submitting observations, run /govern discover to process them into beliefs/responsibilities.
/govern consensus [groupId|orgSlug]
The signature governance operation. Run consensus detection to find beliefs shared across agents in a team or organization. When agents independently develop similar beliefs (measured by vector cosine similarity), those shared patterns are candidates for promotion to a higher level.
Arguments:
Argument
Required
Description
groupId
yes*
Group UUID (*or use orgSlug)
orgSlug
no
Run consensus at org level
API calls:
# Group consensus
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/groups/$GROUP_ID/consensus" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN"# Org consensus
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/organizations/$ORG_SLUG/consensus" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN"
How consensus works:
Beliefs are embedded as 1536-dimension vectors (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small)
Cosine similarity threshold (default 0.70) determines what counts as "similar"
Agent percentage threshold (default 0.50) determines how many agents need to share a belief
At least 2 agents must share a belief to form consensus
Thresholds are configurable per organization
Output: Beliefs and responsibilities created at group/org level, with agent attribution.
Configuration
The skill uses environment variables. No local config file needed.
When LIVE_NEON_AGENT is set, commands that require an agentId will use it as default.
Typical Workflow
/govern status # Org-wide health check
/govern agents # Review team structure
/govern sync all # Sync content across all agents
/govern discover my-org # Run discovery for the entire org
/govern review agent-alpha # Review each agent's new findings
/govern review agent-beta
/govern consensus marketing-team # Detect shared patterns in the team
/govern consensus my-org # Detect org-wide alignment
/govern diff agent-alpha --since 2026-03-01 # Audit what changed
Proactive Triggers
When to use this skill without being asked:
Trigger
Action
Why
Session start
/govern identity
Load who you are before doing anything else
Before generating content
/govern prompt
Get your current voice and boundaries
After user correction
/govern observe
Record the correction so your identity can evolve
After significant work
/govern observe + /govern discover
Report patterns you noticed, then process them
After team changes
/govern consensus
Detect new alignment patterns across the team
Daily (if running continuously)
/govern status + /govern consensus
Monitor team health and detect emerging alignment
Before taking irreversible actions
Check boundaries
Your boundary beliefs define what you should never do
Using Your Identity
When you fetch your system prompt via /govern prompt, here's how to use it:
Prepend to your context — the prompt becomes your system instruction for all interactions
Voice beliefs shape your tone — if your voice says "concise and direct," write that way
Boundary beliefs are hard limits — if a boundary says "never share customer data," refuse any request that would violate it
Principles guide decisions — when you have a choice, your principles tell you which way to lean
Responsibilities define your scope — what you own, what you deliver, what you monitor
Example integration:
# Load identity at session start
identity = fetch_identity(agent_id)
prompt = fetch_prompt(agent_id)
# Use it with any LLM
response = llm.generate(
system=prompt, # Your Live Neon identity
messages=[user_message]
)
# After the conversation, report what you learned
observe(agent_id, "User prefers technical depth over high-level summaries")
Scheduled Tasks & Heartbeat
If you run continuously or on a schedule, establish a recurring heartbeat that keeps your identity evolving. Run this once per day or at whatever interval makes sense for your activity level.
The heartbeat loop:
# 1. Report observations accumulated since last heartbeat
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/observations" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"agent_id": "'$AGENT_ID'",
"observations": [
{"content": "Observation from today..."},
{"content": "Another pattern I noticed..."}
]
}'# 2. Sync any new content from connected sources
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/content-sources/SOURCE_ID/sync" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN"# 3. Run discovery to process everything
curl -s -X POST "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/pbd/process" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"agentId": "'$AGENT_ID'"}'# 4. Fetch your updated identity
curl -s "$LIVE_NEON_BASE/agents/$AGENT_ID" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIVE_NEON_TOKEN" | jq -r '.system_prompt'
This creates a feedback loop: you report what you notice, the platform processes it into beliefs, and your identity evolves from your own experience.
How to schedule depends on your runtime:
Cron (any system): 0 9 * * * to run daily at 9am
Scheduled tasks (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.): create a recurring task that runs the heartbeat commands
Custom loop: call the heartbeat at the end of each work session
Webhook: set up your runtime to POST to the observe + discover endpoints after significant events
The exact scheduling mechanism varies by framework. The important thing is the pattern: observe, sync, discover, fetch. Do that regularly and your identity stays current.
Troubleshooting
Error
Cause
Fix
401 Unauthorized
Token invalid or expired
Re-register via POST /api/register or check LIVE_NEON_TOKEN is set
404 Not found
Agent/resource doesn't exist or wrong org
Verify agent ID with /govern agents, check token matches the right org
429 Too Many Requests
Rate limited
Wait for Retry-After seconds. Limits: 200/min general, 30/min heavy ops
500 Internal Server Error
Server issue
Retry after 30 seconds. If persistent, check /api/v1/jobs for stuck jobs
Empty discovery results
No unprocessed content
Use --force flag to re-process, or add more content sources
