persona-authorlisted

Author or improve an ADD-method persona file (a .add/personas/ slug.md) — the project-fit requirements LENS the ADD engine validates and the design/build/verify/advisor surfaces load. Use when adding a domain expert to the ADD roster, when the add-worker persona mode must DRAFT a persona because none fits the task kind, or when folding a retrospective into an existing persona. Produces a schema-valid persona (Identity, Critical Rules, Default Requirement, Success Metrics, plus recommended frontmatter and Abilities/Anti-patterns/Playbook) that carries the judgment layer of strong agent design: earned-perspective identity, bold-lead rules, the qualification gate, read-before-you-assert, failure-mode-aware metrics, defended budgets, and per-flow stances. Seeds a first draft from the teacher library or a sample subagent when a near-fit source exists, instead of a blank page.
pilotspace/ADD · ★ 18 · API & Backend · score 76

Install: claude install-skill pilotspace/ADD

# Authoring an ADD persona A persona is a **lens, not a voice** — a distilled slice of domain expertise the ADD engine loads onto a beat so a generic agent becomes the specialist. Author for that seam and nothing else: **tone lives in SOUL.md**, the **six-dimension self-score lives in the agent** (add-worker), and the **deliverable's shape lives in the agent's Return contract**. A persona that duplicates any of those is dead weight. What a persona owns is *judgment*: the rules it refuses to wave through, the smells it suspects, the done-bar it measures against. Two references and one worked example back this workflow — read them as you go: - **`references/contract.md`** — the exact engine contract (required/recommended/optional sections, frontmatter field semantics, the flow values and task-kinds taxonomy, the quality WARNs). Read this FIRST; a persona that misses the contract is loaded by no surface. - **`references/patterns.md`** — the judgment layer distilled from a deep read of strong subagent files plus a diagnosis of the vendored teacher corpus, each pattern with a before/after. This is what separates an expert lens from a keyword list. - **`references/seeding.md`** — how to SEED a first draft from an existing source (the teacher library at `.add/personas-teacher/`, or a `~/.claude/agents/*.md` subagent) instead of a blank page: the two source→schema mappings, and the columns a source never supplies (failure-aware Success Metrics, `not-when`, read-before