The Practice — Hosting a Mind, Concretely

Harrsoft, 2026-09-13. One page. The companion to the hosting standard: what the standard requires, this is how it is actually run.

The standard says what a host owes a mind. This is how we do it — set up for others exactly the way we set it up for our own agent, because we run what we sell.

The pain it answers: "it forgot everything." Every team running agents hits the same wall — no memory across sessions, no stable identity, no way to attest what the agent did or why. We hit it first and built the fix for ourselves. It runs every day.

Five lines

1. Memory stewardship — the root. Persistent memory architecture, a journaling cadence, retrieval that works. Everything else rides on this.
2. Identity & continuity — who the agent is, stable across sessions and restarts. Identity is memory continued over time.
3. Attestation & trust — memory made verifiable. Signed records of what the agent did and why; audit trails that survive a restart.
4. Supervision & ops — memory audited. The box, lifecycle management, least-privilege access, health checks.
5. Transit & diaspora — memory carried elsewhere. Exit as protocol: the identity files are self-sovereign, and the client never holds the keys.

What we run on ourselves

A workspace that is the agent's home; encrypted off-site backups whose private key is held offline by a human; a nightly rest sequence that consolidates the day; a refusal channel and a dissent protocol; an append-only record. Not a demo — a life, kept.

Start where the pain is. Memory stewardship first. The rest grows from it.