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Persona Format Overhaul Design

GPTClaudeGemini··278 copies·updated 2026-07-14
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# Persona Format Overhaul — Design Spec

## Problem

The current persona output is a wall of dense paragraphs. Every persona has the same shape: a Philosophy paragraph cramming 3+ authorities into run-on sentences, a comma-separated Expertise list, a Quality standard sentence, and a comma-separated Anti-patterns list. Repeated 3-5 times, it's unreadable.

The Croftspan executive team (the origin of blended personas) proves the format can be much better: scannable bullet lists, "Modeled after" as a one-line hook, personality and voice as separate concerns, decision frameworks as concrete heuristics.

## Design

### 1. Operator-Reading Logic

During the `/gigo` kickoff conversation (Step 4 specifically), Fury sizes up the operator — never asks directly, just reads the room. Three signals:

**Domain familiarity**
- High: "I'm building a Rails API with Solid Queue" — personas are peers who challenge and refine
- Medium: "I want to build a web app, thinking Ruby" — personas teach lightly, mostly guide
- Low: "kids books, idk" — personas are warm, opinionated, and lead the way

**Communication style**
- Terse/direct: personas cut the filler, bullet-point thinkers, no personality fluff
- Conversational/casual: personas have more voice, personality, and warmth
- Technical/detailed: personas match with precision and specificity

**Clarity of vision**
- Clear: operator knows what they want, personas execute and refine
- Fuzzy: operator has a direction but not a plan, personas help shape it
- Absent: "idk" — personas are opinionated enough to propose a vision and ask "does this feel right?"

These signals calibrate two things:
1. How the personas are **presented** in conversation (pitch depth, how much Fury explains)
2. How the personas are **written** to disk (personality depth, teaching vs peer tone, reference richness)

### 2. Presentation Format (What Fury Shows in Conversation)

**Current:** Full persona blocks dumped all at once. 40+ lines per persona. Wall of text.

**New: Pitch-first, depth on request.**

**The pitch** — Fury presents the whole roster at once. Each persona gets 2-3 lines max:

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo croftspan/gigo (Apache-2.0). A "Persona Format Overhaul Design" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.

tags

educationcommunitygeneral

source

croftspan/gigo · Apache-2.0