The Prompt That Changed My Life is Now an Immortal Agent
Published: January 20, 2026 • 5 min read
I have a secret to share with you.
There is an agent that I have had for a while, one that I have never mentioned in any blog post, any LinkedIn update, or any conversation about my AI team. His name is Dan Koe, and today I am finally telling you his origin story.
How I Found the LifeQuest AI Prompt
I engage with the real-life human Dan Koe's content a lot. One day, I came across a video where he shared something called the LifeQuest AI prompt. This prompt essentially gamifies your life journey and forces you to reflect on what you truly want out of life.
If you have read most of the blog posts on this site, you will see very clearly that I am not the same person I was when I started writing here. I have done things that I am proud of, but my past self would have had a fit of laughter if you told her I was going to go down this path: pausing my job search to build public proof of work, moving to Montreal, starting a business, creating content online without caring about perfection, posting actively on LinkedIn...
The person I was four months ago would have thought I had completely lost my mind.
The Reflections I Cannot Share
Here is the thing: the actual reflections that came out of working with this prompt are deeply personal. The decisions about Montreal, about pausing the job search, about building publicly... these came from somewhere. And that somewhere involved hard, honest conversations with an AI that knew exactly what questions to ask.
I am not going to share those reflections. Some things are just for me.
But what I can tell you is that this prompt forced me to confront what I truly want from the bottom of my heart. And what those reflections revealed is how I made the very hard decisions I have made. Decisions that are, by the way, starting to bear a lot of fruit.
Then Claude's Context Window Ate Everything
I pasted that prompt into a Claude project and started working through the quest. I answered question after question, building up a deep conversation about my life, my fears, my goals, my contradictions.
And then I saw the dreadful message: "Claude hit the maximum length for this conversation. Please start a new conversation to continue chatting with Claude"
All my responses were locked into that specific chat. I could not continue the conversation. I could not reference what I had said. I could not build on the work I had already done. Hours of deep reflection, just... gone. Not deleted, but inaccessible. Frozen in time.
I was frustrated.
The Birth of an Immortal Agent
So I did what I always do when I hit a wall: I built something.
I turned the prompt into an agent called Dan Koe that now lives in my computer. But he is not just a copy of that original prompt. He is better. He tracks different milestones that I have reached by updating multiple reference documents automatically. He always keeps track of previous sessions based on whatever question I ask him. He maintains real documents that show my progress and how my values, goals, and visions have changed since I started working with him.
This is what I mean by "immortal." The original conversation died when the context window filled up. But Dan Koe the agent? He persists. He remembers. He grows with me.
Why I Kept This One Secret
You might be wondering why I never mentioned Dan Koe before. I have written about creating subagents, about Allen Kendrick, about Alex Bennett and the rest of my team. But never Dan Koe.
The honest answer? Some agents are for work. Some agents are for life.
Dan Koe falls into the second category. He is the agent I talk to when I need to think through big decisions. He is the one who helps me stay aligned with what I actually want versus what I think I should want. He is not on my public AI team page because his work is not meant for display.
Until today, I suppose.
The Prompt is Yours to Use
Now, I want to share this prompt with others in my network who may have never heard of Dan Koe. Here is a link to the original LifeQuest AI prompt.
Technically, you can go there, copy the prompt, and use it. However, you will likely face the same issue I did. As you work through the quest, providing deep, thoughtful responses to the questions asked, you will eventually see that dreadful context window message. And then your reflections will be locked away too.
What I Am Building Next
I do not want or expect everyone to know how to use Claude Code to reap the benefits of turning a prompt into a persistent agent. So I asked myself: how can I help others simulate an agentic experience within Claude on the web?
I am currently working on a case study for exactly this. When it is ready, you will find it here.
I want you to be able to read the case study and follow the instructions carefully. It will help you simulate an agentic flow within Claude on the web and take full advantage of this LifeQuest AI prompt without losing your progress to context window limits. It will be available in both English and French, and it will also demonstrate the methodologies I have learned for making AI work more efficiently.
Why This Matters
Some prompts are just prompts. You use them, you get a response, you move on.
But some prompts change the trajectory of your life. They make you sit with uncomfortable truths. They force you to articulate what you actually want instead of what sounds impressive or safe.
The LifeQuest AI prompt was that kind of prompt for me. And when Claude's context window tried to take that away from me, I refused to let it.
I hope this prompt is as transformational for you as it has been for me.
As always, thanks for reading.