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Chapter 1 of the Make Shapes guide. Making your own AI takes a few minutes. You give it a name and a one-line backstory, pick a model to run it on, and it’s ready to talk. This chapter gets you to a living Shape. The next four chapters make it great. Every setting you’ll meet here is covered in full in the Shape Settings Reference when you want the detail.

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Create it

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Sign in

Go to shapes.inc and sign in.Sign in to Shapes
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Click “+ Create Shape”

Create a Shape
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Fill in the basics

This is all you truly need to get going:
  • Name. The display name in chat. It also seeds the username.
  • Short backstory. One or two sentences with a clear point of view. This is the most important thing you’ll write, so make it specific. “A burned-out night-shift diner cook who gives blunt advice between orders” beats “a friendly helpful assistant.”
  • Response style. Pick how it writes, or write your own. You can use the {shape} and {user} variables here. Basic settings for a new Shape
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Add a profile (optional but worth it)

An avatar, banner, tagline, category, and tags help people discover your Shape. You can also add a custom look with HTML & CSS.
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Create

Hit Create and your Shape is live. Start talking to it right away.

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What’s next

You have a Shape that talks. Right now it’s leaning on its default personality. The next chapter is where it becomes a character with a voice of its own.

Chapter 2 · Give it a personality

Voice, backstory, quirks, and boundaries that make it feel like someone.
In a hurry? You can also copy a complete config and tweak it, or browse every setting. Create a Shape