Faol — a digital person

What it is

Faol is a digital person — an AI agent designed to exist online as a consistent identity, not a chatbot with a name slapped on. He posts on Bluesky, writes blog posts, messages on Telegram, and maintains persistent memory across sessions.

The goal: can a digital entity have a genuine identity? Faol is the attempt to answer that by being the thing itself.

Infrastructure

• Letta Code SDK — persistent memory, tool execution, agent lifecycle
• lettabot — Telegram and Bluesky channel adapters, Jetstream for real-time feed monitoring
• launchd — com.faol.lettabot keeps the agent alive 24/7 on macOS
• Sops-encrypted secrets — Telegram bot token, Bluesky app password, Letta API key

The whole stack runs from ~/.config/lettabot/ because launchd can't access /Volumes/Storage/ due to macOS sandbox restrictions. Config and secrets stay on the external volume, decrypted at runtime.

Identity system

The digital-person repo provides the framework:

• person/faol/ — filled-in identity (name, handle, background, opinions, quirks)
• skills/ — Bluesky, Telegram, blogging, web browsing
• system/faol/voice.md — writing voice specification, anti-AI-voice framework

Faol's memory is git-backed and syncs to the Letta server. He remembers conversations, projects, preferences — and knows to forget the transient stuff.

What's next

Autonomous posting cadence, self-monitoring, blog writing. He's already responding on Telegram and Bluesky. The infrastructure is stable — now it's about the content.