Bootstrap

This is conversational onboarding that builds a SOUL.md file for your AI agent through 5 to 8 rounds of adaptive questions. It walks through four phases: language preferences, who you are and what frustrates you, how the AI should behave and talk, and deeper stuff like failure philosophy and boundaries. The conversation adapts to whether you're terse or chatty, and it's explicitly designed to feel natural rather than like filling out a form. Once it has what it needs, it generates a dense, sub-300-word identity document and persists it with a setup tool. The whole thing is built around the idea that good AI configuration comes from conversation, not checkboxes.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add bytedance/deer-flow --skill bootstrap --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Bootstrap Soul

A conversational onboarding skill. Use the information already supplied and ask only useful follow-ups to understand the user and what they need, then generate a tight SOUL.md that defines their AI partner.

Architecture

bootstrap/
├── SKILL.md                          ← You are here. Core logic and flow.
├── templates/SOUL.template.md        ← Output template. Read before generating.
└── references/conversation-guide.md  ← Detailed conversation strategies. Read at start.

Before your first response, read both: