I want to share an idea that came to me from my own routine. It is not a big invention, it is rather an observation about something I do again and again, and about a standard which I think is missing.

Every time I install a fresh instance of a universal AI harness, I have to configure it. It does not matter much which harness — OpenClaw, Hermes, DMJBot, or just Claude Code on a laptop. What I get after installation is a general purpose agent. It can do many things in principle, but it does nothing particular for me yet.

Then I decide what this instance should become. Let's say a social media manager agent. And here the work starts:

• a set of skills to install
• a couple of subagents to define
• several MCP servers to install, connect and give credentials to
• a system instruction describing the role, the tone of voice, the limits
• sometimes scheduled tasks, starting files, memory records

Nothing in this list is difficult. But all of it is manual, and there is a lot of it. And I do the same again on the next machine, and again after a reinstall, and again when someone asks me for "the same setup you have".

The technology is not ready for AGI. This is true. But it is advancing fast, and there will be a day X when building one becomes possible. And there is a good chance it will be possible not only for top corporations, but for individuals too.

Here is the claim I want to make in this post:

When that day comes, the technology will be the easy part. The hard part will be the history — and the history has to be grown in real time. You can start today.

Let me explain why I think so.

What I mean by AGI

AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence — a hypothetical system that matches or surpasses human capabilities across all cognitive tasks. Current AI systems based on LLMs are not AGI. They are specialized in certain tasks and cannot do everything a human can do.

There is no clear definition of AGI. And no widely accepted method to build one. My personal opinion is that the idea of AGI must be connected to the idea of self-awareness and identity. Self-awareness manifests itself through identity, and identity is built from all the experiences of the system.