diff --git a/clanServices/hello-world/default.nix b/clanServices/hello-world/default.nix
index 15e53a7b3..f322030cd 100644
--- a/clanServices/hello-world/default.nix
+++ b/clanServices/hello-world/default.nix
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Example clan service. See https://docs.clan.lol/guides/services/community/
+# for more details
+
+# The test for this module in ./tests/vm/default.nix shows an example of how
+# the service is used.
+
 { packages }:
 { ... }:
 {
@@ -5,30 +11,94 @@
   manifest.name = "clan-core/hello-word";
   manifest.description = "This is a test";
 
-  roles.peer = {
+  # This service provides two roles: "morning" and "evening". Roles can be
+  # defined in this file directly (e.g. the "morning" role) or split up into a
+  # separate file (e.g. the "evening" role)
+  roles.morning = {
     interface =
       { lib, ... }:
       {
-        options.foo = lib.mkOption {
+        # Here we define the settings for this role. They will be accessible
+        # via `roles.morning.settings` in the role
+
+        options.greeting = lib.mkOption {
           type = lib.types.str;
-          # default = "";
-          description = "Some option";
+          default = "Good morning";
+          description = "The greeting to use";
         };
       };
+    # Maps over all instances and produces one result per instance.
+    perInstance =
+      {
+        # Role settings for this machine/instance
+        settings,
+
+        # The name of this instance of the service
+        instanceName,
+
+        # The current machine
+        machine,
+
+        # All roles of this service, with their assigned machines
+        roles,
+        ...
+      }:
+      {
+        # Analog to 'perSystem' of flake-parts.
+        # For every instance of this service we will add a nixosModule to a morning-machine
+        nixosModule =
+          { config, ... }:
+          {
+            # Interaction examples what you could do here:
+            # - Get some settings of this machine
+            # settings.ipRanges
+            #
+            # - Get all evening names:
+            # allEveningNames = lib.attrNames roles.evening.machines
+            #
+            # - Get all roles of the machine:
+            # machine.roles
+            #
+            # - Get the settings that where applied to a specific evening machine:
+            # roles.evening.machines.peer1.settings
+            imports = [ ];
+            environment.etc.hello.text = "${settings.greeting} World!";
+          };
+      };
   };
 
+  # The impnlementation of the evening role is in a separate file. We have kept
+  # the interface here, so we can see all settings of the service in one place,
+  # but you can also move it to the respective file
+  roles.evening = {
+    interface =
+      { lib, ... }:
+      {
+        options.greeting = lib.mkOption {
+          type = lib.types.str;
+          default = "Good evening";
+          description = "The greeting to use";
+        };
+      };
+  };
+  imports = [ ./evening.nix ];
+
+  # This part gets applied to all machines, regardless of their role.
   perMachine =
     { machine, ... }:
     {
-      nixosModule = {
-        clan.core.vars.generators.hello = {
-          files.hello = {
-            secret = false;
-          };
-          script = ''
-            echo "Hello world from ${machine.name}" > $out/hello
-          '';
+      nixosModule =
+        { pkgs, ... }:
+        {
+          environment.systemPackages = [
+            (pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "greet-world" ''
+              #!${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash
+              set -euo pipefail
+
+              cat /etc/hello
+              echo " I'm ${machine.name}"
+            '')
+          ];
         };
-      };
     };
 }
diff --git a/clanServices/hello-world/evening.nix b/clanServices/hello-world/evening.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53707def9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clanServices/hello-world/evening.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  roles.evening.perInstance =
+    { settings, ... }:
+    {
+      nixosModule =
+        { ... }:
+        {
+          imports = [ ];
+          environment.etc.hello.text = "${settings.greeting} World!";
+        };
+    };
+}
diff --git a/clanServices/hello-world/tests/eval-tests.nix b/clanServices/hello-world/tests/eval-tests.nix
index becd0f169..1cca5c54b 100644
--- a/clanServices/hello-world/tests/eval-tests.nix
+++ b/clanServices/hello-world/tests/eval-tests.nix
@@ -27,20 +27,10 @@ let
         module.name = "hello-world";
         module.input = "self";
 
-        roles.peer.machines.jon = { };
+        roles.evening.machines.jon = { };
       };
     };
   };
-  # NOTE:
-  # If you wonder why 'self-zerotier-redux':
-  # A local module has prefix 'self', otherwise it is the name of the 'input'
-  # The rest is the name of the service as in the instance 'module.name';
-  #
-  # -> ${module.input}-${module.name}
-  # In this case it is 'self-zerotier-redux'
-  # This is usually only used internally, but we can use it to test the evaluation of service module in isolation
-  # evaluatedService =
-  #   testFlake.clanInternals.inventoryClass.distributedServices.importedModulesEvaluated.self-zerotier-redux.config;
 in
 {
   test_simple = {
diff --git a/clanServices/hello-world/tests/vm/default.nix b/clanServices/hello-world/tests/vm/default.nix
index 3777772bf..0f641444b 100644
--- a/clanServices/hello-world/tests/vm/default.nix
+++ b/clanServices/hello-world/tests/vm/default.nix
@@ -5,22 +5,35 @@
     directory = ./.;
     inventory = {
       machines.peer1 = { };
+      machines.peer2 = { };
 
       instances."test" = {
         module.name = "hello-service";
         module.input = "self";
-        roles.peer.machines.peer1 = { };
+
+        # Assign the roles to the two machines
+        roles.morning.machines.peer1 = { };
+
+        roles.evening.machines.peer2 = {
+          # Set roles settings for the peers, where we want to differ from
+          # the role defaults
+          settings = {
+            greeting = "Good night";
+          };
+        };
       };
     };
   };
 
   testScript =
-    { nodes, ... }:
+    { ... }:
     ''
       start_all()
 
-      # peer1 should have the 'hello' file
-      value = peer1.succeed("cat ${nodes.peer1.clan.core.vars.generators.hello.files.hello.path}")
-      assert value.strip() == "Hello world from peer1", value
+      value = peer1.succeed("greet-world")
+      assert value.strip() == "Good morning World! I'm peer1", value
+
+      value = peer2.succeed("greet-world")
+      assert value.strip() == "Good night World! I'm peer2", value
     '';
 }
diff --git a/formatter.nix b/formatter.nix
index 51d68dd7b..5dbbc7754 100644
--- a/formatter.nix
+++ b/formatter.nix
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
         "pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/tests/data/sshd_config"
         "pkgs/clan-vm-manager/.vscode/lhebendanz.weaudit"
         "pkgs/clan-vm-manager/bin/clan-vm-manager"
+        "clanServices/hello-world/default.nix"
         "sops/secrets/test-backup-age.key/secret"
       ];
       treefmt.settings.formatter.ruff-format.includes = [