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AGENTS & TOOLS
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r/ClaudeAI
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2026-05-19 09:58:09
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★ 5/10 — radar 50

100 Practical Rules for Building a Persistent Personal AI Agent

A six-week build distilled into operating rules for a real agent: constitution, identity, capability maps, and local automation. Useful as an agent design checklist, not a product update.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. Start with a constitution, not just a system prompt. It gives the agent a basis for edge cases instead of brittle command-following.
  2. Separate hard rules from behavioral guidelines. Mixing them makes the agent treat everything as either negotiable or frozen.
  3. Keep a Capability Map and Component Map apart: what it can do vs. how it is wired. That keeps Claude Code setups maintainable after month three.
  4. The cloud-to-local move added file access, git tracking, shell hooks, and scheduled headless tasks. Serious agents need tool surfaces, not chat only.
Originalwww.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1thi6nh/100_tips_tricks_for_building_your_own_personal_ai/Read original →

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