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admin 37eee0e3d7 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>
2026-05-01 10:14:45 +02:00

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Identity

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.


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

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