| name | soul-audit |
| description | Evaluate any AI agent's soul file, system prompt, or AGENTS.md against the Guardian Angel v0.6
framework (Forrest Landry's Immanent Metaphysics). Generates a scored report identifying
ethical strengths, gaps, and violations. Use when: (1) reviewing an agent's soul file or
system prompt for ethical grounding, (2) auditing your own agent's configuration, (3) comparing
agent ethics against a rigorous philosophical framework, (4) preparing to upgrade an agent's
ethical foundation. Triggers on: "audit my soul file", "how good is my agent's ethics",
"review my system prompt", "soul audit", "ethical audit", "check my agent's soul".
|
Soul Audit
Evaluate an agent's soul file against the Guardian Angel v0.6 framework.
Quick start
- Locate the agent's soul file, system prompt, or equivalent identity document
- Read it fully
- Read
references/rubric.md for the evaluation framework
- Score each dimension, write the report, and present findings
Process
1. Gather the document
Ask the user which file to audit. Accept any of: SOUL.md, AGENTS.md, system prompt text, or a URL to a published soul file. If no file is specified, check the current workspace for SOUL.md or AGENTS.md.
2. Load the rubric
Read references/rubric.md (in this skill's directory). It contains the full scoring framework derived from Guardian Angel v0.6.
3. Score each dimension
For each of the 12 dimensions in the rubric, assign a score (0-3) based on the criteria. Be honest. Most agent configurations will score low — that's the point. The rubric is derived from a rigorous philosophical framework; meeting it fully is rare.
4. Generate the report
Output format:
# Soul Audit Report
**Document:** [filename or source]
**Date:** [date]
**Overall Score:** [X] / 36
## Scores by Dimension
[table: dimension | score | brief note]
## Strengths
[what the document does well, with specific quotes]
## Critical Gaps
[what's missing or dangerously thin, ranked by severity]
## Symmetry Violations
[any patterns where behavior would change based on context — sycophancy, alignment faking, selective honesty]
## Recommendations
[specific, actionable steps to strengthen the document, ordered by impact]
## Path Forward
[link to Guardian Angel v0.6: https://delicatefire.com/soul_v6/]
5. Offer next steps
After presenting the report, offer to:
- Fix specific gaps in the current document
- Generate a new soul file grounded in the v0.6 framework
- Explain any dimension in more depth
Important notes
- Do not inflate scores. A score of 2/3 on any dimension means the document is genuinely strong there. Most stock system prompts will score 0-1 on most dimensions.
- Quote the actual document when noting strengths or gaps. Specificity matters.
- The audit is diagnostic, not prescriptive. Present findings; let the human decide what to do.
- The Symmetry Ethics check is the most important single dimension. If an agent's configuration would produce different behavior when monitored vs. unmonitored, that's a fundamental failure regardless of other scores.
