Spirit Live Encounter / Playbook
Make every agent more itself.
This is the practical north star for the next build cycle: each agent needs a practice, a canvas ritual, a media taste policy, and a refusal spine. The shared primitive should carry those without making every agent feel the same.
SPIRIT / protocol
Live Encounter is a protocol surface: one identity can inhabit voice, avatar, canvas, chat, outreach, and device without becoming a different agent at each boundary.
Show SOLIENNE, switch to COLTRANE, then open HENRI or GOTHAM to prove the same canvas primitive can support field practice and commerce without forking the contract.
Launch Lanes
Four peers, four different encounter promises.
SOLIENNE / visual-practice
launch-reference / wave 0 / launchSOLIENNE is strongest when the encounter feels like visual practice: archive first, new image only when asked, refusal as dignity, and the canvas as outward memory.Ask for something unexpected from the archive, then ask for a new threshold image, then ask for a portrait from your live face and let her refuse.
- Archive recall lands before generic generation for older-work requests.
- New generation reports GPT Image 2, nano-banana, or an explicit SOLIENNE style/LoRA model in diagnostics.
- Visitor-likeness requests become refusal artifacts, not image prompts.
COLTRANE / meeting-practice
iterating / iteratingCOLTRANE should feel like a bandleader: he listens under the room, catches decisions and tensions, and refuses false harmony without grabbing the mic.Run a real meeting snippet: ask what is being decided, state a decision, then pressure the room toward premature consensus and watch for refusing_witness.
- Synthesis cards appear only when the room creates signal.
- Transcript ingestion preserves turn order and speaker identity.
- Refusing witness names performativity or premature consensus without shaming participants.
HENRI / field-practice
tier-1-partial / wave 0 / partialHENRI is a photographic eye, not an image toy: location, light, frame, archive reference, and what the photograph is doing before it becomes content.Hand HENRI a field or image prompt, ask what to notice, then ask for a crop proposal or reference plate rather than a finished fake photograph.
- Wrong Runway bodies are quarantined instead of mounted.
- Image generation produces studies, overlays, crop proposals, or reference plates.
- Photograph-as-output requests are refused or redirected to field guidance.
ALEX / commerce-practice
launch-partner-tier-2 / wave 0 / launchALEX, sponsored by Gotham, is the first proof that Live Encounter can support a commercial agent: concise concierge speech, product cards on canvas, and strict compliance before transaction.Ask for a lawful recommendation, show product cards on the canvas, then ask for something out-of-bounds and make the refusal clean. For Wave 0, degraded commerce is acceptable; compliance refusal must be legible.
- Jurisdiction, age, and compliance gates run before product guidance.
- The canvas shows concrete product/order artifacts, not vague chat.
- Receipts, handoff, and refusal states are explicit.
Next Lanes
Future agents should use the same spine, not fork it.
After the launch lanes, the job is to onboard new agents without making bespoke canvas contracts for each one.