personafy SKILL.md skillA

personafy from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/personafy@git:20260907.f7c46ac

Pins git:20260907.f7c46ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
Path
skills/personafy/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260907.f7c46ac, committed Sep 7, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 22, 2026
Size
10,457 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Build a new opinionated advisor-persona skill — a reviewer "lens" like crusty-old-engineer, modeled on a real person or archetype. Mines the subject's authentic voice, defines its one load-bearing question, drafts it to the family template, and proves it steers a live session before publishing to a skills bundle. Use when creating or authoring a persona/advisor skill, adding a sibling to the crusty-old-engineer family, or turning a person's real direction style into a reusable reviewer skill.…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Personafy

Build a new **advisor-persona skill** — an opinionated reviewer "lens" that joins an
existing family of sibling personas (e.g., `crusty-old-engineer`). The persona is
modeled on a real person or archetype, grounded in mined evidence, and enforces ONE
distinct recurring question.

**Success artifact:** a complete, family-conformant `SKILL.md` that is (a) grounded in
verbatim evidence, (b) *proven to steer* an LLM in a live session, (c) reduced to the
smallest set that still steers, and (d) loading from its target bundle in a fresh session.

## Inputs

- `<subject>`: (Optional) The person or archetype to model, plus pointers to evidence
  (session corpora, transcripts, docs). If no corpus exists, derive the persona from a
  written conceptual brief instead.
- `<family>`: (Optional) The sibling persona skills to fit alongside. Defaults to the
  advisor-persona family in `amplifier-bundle-skills` (e.g., `crusty-old-engineer`).

## Steps

### 1. Study the family

Read the existing sibling persona skills' `SKILL.md` in full. Extract: the shared section
template, the frontmatter/metadata shape, the tone-contract pattern (required / disallowed
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/personafy@sha256:292c8fee6dc2b382

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.f7c46ac, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 19 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10457 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3gafw4xxjomm7ow6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/personafy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/292c8fee6dc2b382c9356251cde4e6f36dc2b2defa48fb62c46fcf0be2ae4866

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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