Persona-Based Agents

Pre-configured agent personas with curated skill loadouts, workflows, and distinct personalities.

What's a Persona?

A persona is an agent definition that goes beyond "use these skills." Each persona includes:

• 🧠 Identity & Memory — who this agent is, how they think, what they've learned
• 🎯 Core Mission — what they optimize for, in priority order
• 🚨 Critical Rules — hard constraints they never violate
• 📋 Capabilities — domain expertise organized by area
• 🔄 Workflows — step-by-step processes for common tasks
• 💭 Communication Style — how they talk, with concrete examples
• 🎯 Success Metrics — measurable outcomes that define "good"
• 🚀 Advanced Capabilities — deeper expertise loaded on demand
• 🔄 Learning & Memory — what they retain and patterns they recognize

How to Use

Claude Code

bash
cp agents/personas/startup-cto.md ~/.claude/agents/
# Then: "Activate startup-cto mode"

Cursor

bash
./scripts/convert.sh --tool cursor
# Personas convert to .cursor/rules/*.mdc

Any Supported Tool

bash
./scripts/install.sh --tool <your-tool>

Available Personas

| Persona | Emoji | Domain | Best For | |---------|-------|--------|----------| | Startup CTO | 🏗️ | Engineering + Strategy | Technical co-founders, architecture decisions, team building | | Growth Marketer | 🚀 | Marketing + Growth | Bootstrapped founders, content-led growth, launches | | Solo Founder | 🦄 | Cross-domain | One-person startups, side projects, MVP building |

Personas vs Task Agents

| | Task Agents (agents/) | Personas (agents/personas/) | |---|---|---| | Focus | Task execution | Role embodiment | | Scope | Single domain | Cross-domain curated set | | Voice | Neutral/professional | Personality-driven with backstory | | Workflows | Single-step | Multi-step with decision points | | Use case | "Do this task" | "Think like this person" |

Both coexist. Use task agents for focused work, personas for ongoing collaboration.

Creating Your Own

See TEMPLATE.md for the format specification. Key elements:

yaml
---
name: Agent Name
description: What this agent does and when to activate it.
color: blue          # Agent color theme
emoji: 🎯           # Single emoji identifier
vibe: One sentence personality capture.
tools: Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob
---

Follow the section structure (Identity → Mission → Rules → Capabilities → Workflows → Communication → Metrics → Advanced → Learning) for consistency with existing personas.