# Introducing Soulscrape Soulscrape is a free agent skill that writes a dated dossier on one person, with every claim linked to a source you can open. By Hraness. Published 2026-09-24. Drafted with AI from the source code and reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), independent AI editorial and dual-use review. ## Soulscrape writes a cited dossier on one person Soulscrape is a free agent skill that writes a dated dossier on one person from sources you're allowed to use. Every claim links to the page it came from, so you can check it yourself. *A published dossier page for the architect Eugene Tssui, with its summary and source counts, in an illustration.* ## It asks what the dossier is for before it reads anything Before your agent opens a single source, it writes down who the person is, what the dossier is for, who will read it, and which sources are allowed. If something important is unclear, it asks once. *An agent session recording the subject, use, audience, and allowed sources, then asking one question, in an illustration.* ## Facts, beliefs, patterns, and guesses stay apart Every claim is one of four kinds: a fact, something the person says they believe, a pattern across sources, or speculation. A guess is labeled as a guess, never passed off as a fact. *One claim labeled Stated belief, beside the other three claim labels, in an illustration.* ## Open any claim to see what it rests on The example dossier on the architect Eugene Tssui has 31 claims from 17 sources. Open a claim to see each source and the day it was read. His own sites are marked as his own account. *A fact claim opened to its sources, one marked as the subject's own site, in an illustration.* ## It says what the record can't settle A dossier ends with open questions instead of smoothing them over. The Tssui dossier lists 4, like how many of his designs were built: the answer depends on who is counting. *The dossier's open questions section, listing what the sources disagree on, in an illustration.* ## It runs in your own agent, and you publish nothing by default Soulscrape runs inside Claude Code, Codex, or another agent that loads skills, with your own model. No Soulscrape account. Web research is off until you ask for it, and nothing is published until you review it. *The agent checking every claim has a source, then waiting for review before publishing, in an illustration.* ## For interviews, collaborators, and your own public record Use it to prepare for an interview, write a private guide to working with a colleague, or see what the public record says about you. It won't help with background checks, hiring, or other decisions about a person. *The uses Soulscrape accepts, the ones that need the person's permission, and the ones it declines, in an illustration.* ## Dossiers that people and agents can both read A published dossier is a web page, a JSON file, and a Markdown copy. The goal is public records about people that are dated, cited, and easy to correct, which other tools can read without copying by hand. *The same dossier as JSON, with each claim pointing to its source records, in an illustration.* ## A dossier is a reading of the evidence, not the person A dossier covers only the sources it was given. It isn't a full picture, a diagnosis, or consent to speak as someone. Anyone can request a correction or removal, and you can withdraw what you publish. *A published dossier page with its link to request a correction or removal, in an illustration.* ## Soulscrape is free and MIT licensed Latest release: v0.6.0. The skill is free and MIT licensed, and installs with one command. Publishing a dossier needs a free Hraness account. Your model and any research service may charge separately. *A terminal installing the Soulscrape skill with one command, in an illustration.* ## Which uses need the person's permission Before it reads anything, the skill records what the dossier is for. That decides whose permission it needs. - **A dossier on yourself.** Your own notes and writing become a guide to how you work. No one else needs to sign off. - **A private guide to working with someone.** From evidence you already have, such as a shared project channel, it writes how a colleague likes to get proposals, disagree, and decide. It's for your own preparation. It won't imitate their voice or judge their character. - **Writing in someone's voice.** Drafting as them, or building an assistant that works like them, needs their explicit permission for that use. A published dossier, like the [Eugene Tssui page](/ben/eugene-tssui), uses public sources only and leaves out contact details, private family details, and private facts about other people. The person hasn't agreed to be written about, so the page reports what public evidence shows and never speaks for them. Having someone's messages, or finding public facts about them, doesn't count as their permission. The skill stops to ask when a request assumes it does. ## Limits The project's automated checks test the software and file formats; they don't show that any dossier is true. Only a reader who opens the sources can judge that. The project was called Ensoul until September 2026. ## Go deeper - [Install the skill and write your first dossier](/docs) - [See example requests for each use](/use-cases) - [Read the full Eugene Tssui dossier](/ben/eugene-tssui) - [Browse every published example](/examples)