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BackStory
Interviews you in your messenger, a few questions at a time. What it learns gets written into your files, in your words.
ON DUTY · ASKS, LISTENS, FILES
BackSelf keeps your persona, a written digital self. A bot interviews you and writes what it learns into your files. Your own agents read those files through one guarded door and act as you. Every read lands on a log you can check any morning.
Each station does one job. All of them read through the same door, and the door writes everything down. Three are running. One is not built yet, and this page says so.
Interviews you in your messenger, a few questions at a time. What it learns gets written into your files, in your words.
The one authoritative home for your persona. 21 files, counted completeness, history with restore, an access log, real export, real delete.
Runs your persona in your own agents through one guarded API. Every run files a report on the Desk, and nothing sends without your go.
Read the manual →Will run your persona for other people, a double answering the way you would, from what you cleared for them. It does not exist yet. It is deliberately last.
The whole BackShot manual, right here: what writes your persona and what reads it, the one-line install, the three commands, and how a run comes back to you.
Needs Claude Code, curl, node, unzip, and an account (the door; read what we can and cannot see first). Your line is on Connect:
curl -fsSL https://backself.com/skill/install.sh | sh -s -- bsb_<your code>
Cached for a day, one conditional request after that. The cached persona lives in ~/.backself (chmod 700). A token can read your persona and, with the runs scope, file run reports; no token can edit a persona file.
None of it blocks the run. No network, no Builder token: it still finishes and prints its report in the terminal.
One door. One guard. Everything on the log.
Every station reads through the same guarded API. There is no side entrance.
Every read is logged.
Who asked, what they saw, when. The log is yours to check any morning.
Export is real files. Delete is real deletion.
Zipped markdown you can open anywhere. Gone means gone.
Runs wait for your go.
Nothing sends in your name while a report sits unapproved on the Desk.
The trust page says what we can see and what we cannot see, stated before you sign up, not after.
Read the trust pageThe first twenty sign-ins each day are let in automatically — the button just lets you in. Past that, signing in records a request he reads himself, and the same button opens once approved.