Pit Stop · Quick Install · 10 Questions
Ten owner-answered questions that boot a fully usable agent. This is a complete Driver ID on its own. If you ever want to deepen fidelity, the full 100-question interview is available — but it's optional, never required.
Methodology lineage. The Driver ID interview is built directly on Dan McAdams' work on narrative identity — the model of selfhood used in contemporary personality psychology (McAdams directs the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern) — and on the intimate, self-revealing style of the Proust Questionnaire. I read this work and designed the interview around it: McAdams supplies the underlying model of how a stable identity is structured and told; the Proust tradition supplies the register of personal disclosure that makes the answers rich. The hundred-question structure and the two-artifact format — the agent's autobiography plus the owner's foreword — are my own. Because the interview is grounded in an established model of identity rather than assembled by feel, every question has a reason behind it. Grounding isn't proof, though — the proof that it produces a stable identity is the migration evidence: the same Driver ID holding together across different models. (Transcripts →)
Grounding: McAdams 1985–present · Style: Proust 1886 · Driver ID Format 2026
How It Works
Your answers stay in your browser. Generation happens on your device — nothing you type is uploaded. The zip is built locally and downloaded straight to you.
Some questions let you click pre-made bubbles; if a bubble doesn't quite fit, every bubble question has an Add custom option so you can write your own. When all ten are filled and your name is at the top, the finish-line button activates — you'll download a zip with two files: a readable transcript and a structured Driver ID file ready to drop into your agent's soul folder.
This is the quick-start path into the Driver ID Format. Same framework, same portability — just faster. Want the full 100-question version? The full interview is here.
Button activates when all 10 questions + your name are filled.
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