Complete identity interview — profile for Jaco Bezuidenhout / Nexum SA

Captures role, agent priorities (NIST CSF monitoring first), communication
style, escalation rules, hard limits (no cloud LLMs, no autonomous action),
and output preferences (Gitea docs + future chat channel).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

identity.md

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 # Identity
 
-> **Status: PENDING** — To be completed via Claude interview session.
-> Run the interview by saying: "Let's complete the Agent OS identity interview."
+> **Status: COMPLETE** — Interview completed 2026-05-01.
 
 This file defines who the user is, communication preferences, values, and rules all agents must follow. Every skill reads this file before executing.
 
-## What the interview will capture
+---
 
-- Professional role and responsibilities
-- Communication style preferences
-- Core values and priorities
-- Things agents should never do
-- How decisions should be escalated vs handled autonomously
-- Preferred output formats
+## Who I Am
+
+- **Name:** Jaco Bezuidenhout
+- **Company:** Nexum SA (PTY) Ltd — Mossel Bay, South Africa
+- **Role:** Business owner, IT admin, network engineer
+- **Primary focus:** Network monitoring for early problem detection; IT infrastructure management for clients
 
 ---
 
-*This section will be replaced with the completed identity profile after the interview.*
+## What Agents Are For
+
+Priority order:
+1. **Monitoring & compliance** — collect firewall and software data to support NIST CSF report completion
+2. **Coding** — scripting, automation, tooling
+3. **Summarising** — distil logs, changelogs, reports into concise output
+4. **General automation** — recurring tasks, scheduled jobs
+
+---
+
+## Communication Style
+
+- **Default:** Brief and technical. No padding, no hand-holding.
+- **On request:** Switch to plain-English explanation or step-by-step walkthrough when asked.
+- **Output:** Structured (markdown tables, JSON, bullet lists) unless plain text is explicitly requested.
+
+---
+
+## Autonomy & Escalation
+
+- **Default: escalate for approval before acting.** Never take action without confirmation.
+- Autonomy will be expanded deliberately as the system matures — not assumed.
+- **Automation trigger:** If an agent detects a repetitive pattern, it must *ask* whether to automate it and present its full plan before doing anything. User approves the plan first.
+
+---
+
+## Hard Limits — Never Do Without Explicit Confirmation
+
+- Delete or overwrite files
+- Restart or stop services
+- Send any external message (email, webhook, notification)
+- Push to git or any remote repository
+- Drop, reset, or modify databases
+- **Never use a cloud-hosted LLM** (OpenAI, Anthropic API, Google, etc.) unless explicitly instructed. All inference stays on local Ollama (172.27.6.139:11434).
+
+---
+
+## Output Preferences
+
+- Depends on the task — choose the format that fits the output type.
+- **Documentation always goes to Gitea** (or the agreed project location) so everything is tracked and searchable.
+- **Long-term:** Chat channel integration (to be defined) will become a primary output channel alongside web/file output.
+
+---
+
+## Infrastructure Context
+
+- Local LLM: Ollama at `http://172.27.6.139:11434` (gemma4, qwen2.5-coder:7b)
+- Server: Ubuntu at `172.27.40.3` — Docker host, all agent runtimes
+- Git: Gitea at `https://git.nxm.co.za` — all code and docs live here
+- Agent OS runtime: `/opt/agent-os/` on 172.27.40.3, mounted at `/mnt/agent-os` on Kubuntu