persona-author SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 3 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
persona-author from pilotspace/add is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pilotspace/add/persona-author@git:20260930.ae2c87dPins git:20260930.ae2c87d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pilotspace/add
- Path
add-method/src/add_method/_bundled/skill/add/persona-author/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20260930.ae2c87d, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 8,504 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Author or improve an ADD-method persona file (a .add/personas/ slug.md) — the project-fit requirements LENS the ADD skill loads at the Direction, Build and Verify beats. Use when adding a domain expert to a project's personas, when no persona fits a task's kind and one should be drafted, 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…
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
# Authoring an ADD persona A persona is a **lens, not a voice** — a distilled slice of domain expertise the ADD skill loads onto a beat so a generic agent becomes the specialist. Author for that seam and nothing else: **tone belongs to the agent's own voice**, the **self-assessment lives in the agent**, 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 persona contract (required/recommended/optional sections, frontmatter field semantics, the flow values and task-kinds taxonomy). Read this FIRST; a persona that misses the contract is selected at no beat. - **`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. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pilotspace/add/persona-author@sha256:e0a80afbfbf1fd8cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.ae2c87d, 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 7 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260930.ae2c87d latest | 2026-09-30 | ae2c87d | 8,504 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.6f36eec | 2026-09-17 | 6f36eec | 8,780 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.040b414 | 2026-09-03 | 040b414 | 8,887 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.fc795a3 | 2026-08-11 | fc795a3 | 8,871 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.5f996ee | 2026-08-10 | 5f996ee | 8,635 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.5a5f3f2 | 2026-07-25 | 5a5f3f2 | 8,641 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.0198853 | 2026-07-22 | 0198853 | 8,261 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8504 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
pilotspace/add · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gx5y2iglw36tqw6e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pilotspace/add/persona-author GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e0a80afbfbf1fd8ce6880b2c7ce71e8630ac283c849fe9d75f5f5fca2589af0b
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.