Identity
9 practitioners working with Identity:
agent identity firewall security — 2026-03-09
when your AI's personality lives in a text file, that file is attack surface. security suites, consent-based platforms, and AI that trains itself.
AGENTS.md is for your repo. self.md is for YOU.
your repo gets an instruction file. why don't you? the case for a personal identity protocol in the age of AI agents.
context collapse and personal AI
sociology's context collapse — when all your audiences merge into one — is now an AI problem. your AI doesn't know which you it's talking to.
digital twin: ai that models you
an agent that knows how you think, decide, write, and work. useful, powerful, and deeply weird.
identity as protocol
identity isn't a profile or a personality test. it's a living protocol — a machine-readable document that routes AI behavior based on who you are, not what you've saved.
self as process, not profile
MBTI, enneagram, 'I'm a visual learner' — frozen snapshots pretending to be people. real identity is tensions in motion, not labels in a database.
the qualified self
beyond quantified self, beyond second brain. from numbers to notes to narratives — the evolution toward self-knowledge that actually routes.
the title will go away. the skill won't.
Boris Cherny says the software engineering title is disappearing. that's not a job market story. it's an identity architecture story.
your agent needs a firewall
when your AI assistant's personality lives in a text file, that file becomes attack surface. the security layer nobody's building yet.