Direct answers about AgentSoul, Soul Forge, the Enneagram framework, and how ganjiang.xyz operates inside mainland China.
Last updated: 22 June 2026
AgentSoul is an Enneagram-driven configuration generator for AI agents, and Soul Forge is the tool that produces a complete soul package in about 90 seconds. You answer a quiz, upload chat screenshots, or talk to a mentor, and Soul Forge writes four Markdown files (soul.md, identity.md, user.md, agents.md) that drop straight into Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, or any harness that reads project memory.
The Enneagram is a nine-type personality framework that describes core motivations and predictable failure modes, not surface preferences. It matters for AI agents because motivation is the right abstraction layer for agent design — a Type 5 agent investigates before acting while a Type 8 agent confronts and decides, and encoding that as a soul produces consistent behaviour under pressure that MBTI or Big Five labels cannot capture.
Soul Forge writes soul.md (the agent's Enneagram-typed personality core), identity.md (name, role, voice, boundaries), user.md (a profile of you so the agent knows who it's serving), and agents.md (operating rules, tool permissions, escalation policy). Together they form a drop-in project-memory bundle that any modern coding agent or assistant can read on startup.
The exported files work with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, and Hermes out of the box, and any harness that reads Markdown project memory can consume them. Markdown is an open format with no lock-in, so you can also hand-edit the files or feed them to a custom agent loop you wrote yourself.
Yes — running any of the three Soul Forge modes and downloading the four Markdown files is free, with no signup paywall and no per-export charge. The companion books on Amazon UK (The Complete Enneagram, The Soul of AI Agents) are paid, but the web product itself is free.
Deep Forge is a 49-question rule-based quiz with no AI in the loop and is the most accurate for self-knowers; Flash Forge analyses 3 to 10 chat screenshots with vision AI for users who want a result in under a minute; Gao Dao is a streaming conversational mentor for users who prefer talking through their patterns. All three modes produce the same four-file soul package.
No — Flash Forge processes uploaded images in memory only and never writes them to storage. The database persists only the resulting report JSON, a SHA-256 input hash, and the screenshot count, so even the operator cannot retrieve the images you uploaded after the analysis completes.
Ganjiang.xyz uses MiniMax-M2.7 for the Gao Dao text mentor and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash on Volcengine Ark for Flash Forge vision, because Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic APIs are blocked or unreliable from inside mainland China. Both providers are CN-resident and licensed for generative-AI service, which is what the local regulatory regime requires.
Ganjiang.xyz is hosted on a Volcengine ECS instance in the cn-shanghai region under ICP filing number 沪ICP备2026005976号. The database is a self-hosted Supabase Postgres running in Docker on the same instance, so all user data, published souls, and Forge results live on infrastructure inside mainland China.
Ganjiang.xyz is operated by Ganjiang (Shanghai, China), the local operating entity that holds the ICP filing and the generative-AI service registration. The international sister site agentsoul.market is operated separately by Innovatorly Ltd in London — the two deployments share no user data.
Ganjiang.xyz is the mainland-China deployment hosted on Volcengine with MiniMax and Doubao providers and full ICP/AIGC compliance; agentsoul.market is the international deployment hosted on Vercel with Gemini, Claude, and other globally-available models. The product and Enneagram framework are identical, but accounts, published souls, and Forge results do not cross between them.
Yes — Soul Forge exports four plain Markdown files (soul.md, identity.md, user.md, agents.md) that you own outright and can paste into any agent system, version-control alongside your codebase, or edit by hand. There is no proprietary binary format and no vendor lock-in.
Flash Forge feeds your screenshots to Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash, a vision-capable reasoning model on Volcengine Ark, which extracts conversational patterns — how you frame problems, what you defend, what you avoid — and maps them against the nine Enneagram types. The model emits an internal reasoning trace before the final type call, which is why analysis typically takes 20 to 40 seconds for a 3 to 10 image batch.
Re-run a different forge mode — Deep Forge's 49-question quiz is the most rigorous and is the recommended tiebreaker when Flash or Gao Dao return a type that doesn't feel right. You can also manually edit the four exported Markdown files to override the type, since they are plain text that you own.
Yes — The Complete Enneagram: From Human Personality to Agentic Soul (36 chapters covering all nine types, 18 wings, and 27 subtypes) and The Soul of AI Agents (12 chapters on identity infrastructure for agent systems) are both available on Amazon UK in bilingual editions. Both books are written natively in English and Simplified Chinese rather than translated.