Developer Releases Portable AI Agent User Profile Template USER.md

On 2026-11-12 00:03, DEV Community's AI section published an article titled "Open-source portable AI assistant user profile template USER.md", written by a developer. The piece opens with the observation that AI agents are stateless by default: unless you give them a stable profile of the human operator, every session starts from zero. Such a profile has to cover the operator's role, preferences, communication style, and constraints.

The developer then introduces USER.md as the convention for a small, durable file that holds this operator information, noting that the convention originated in the OpenClaw workspace. The file is deliberately kept separate from the agent's persona, stored in SOUL.md, and from project instructions, stored in AGENTS.md.

The developer says they published a portable, harness-agnostic version of the template, which keeps the operator's role, preferences, and constraints independent of the agent's persona configuration and project instructions. It is meant to work across agent runtime frameworks that support user profile files.

In the available reporting, the article text breaks off shortly after explaining the stateless default and the USER.md convention, with no further verifiable developments covered. The story therefore stands at the point of publication and introduction.