great-minds

Great Minds

14 legendary personas (Jobs, Musk, Buffett, Ive, Rubin, Huang, Winfrey, Rhimes, Blakely, Hamilton, Angelou, Sorkin, Aurelius, Jackson) plus 8 functional-role implementers — that debate, review, plan, and build. Available in three install formats to match how you work.

📖 Read the User Manual for the complete reference — install paths, all 22 agents (14 named + 8 functional), all 17 skills, lite vs full agency workflows, project structure, memory store, three end-to-end walkthroughs, patterns, and troubleshooting.

Newcomer? Start here

/constellation-start

The discoverable entry point for the Caseproof persona constellation. Asks 2-3 questions about your project shape and routes to the right plugin's project-init skill — or channels Phil Jackson (constellation-aware as of v1.3) for ambiguous or mixed projects. Always ensures the bible at .great-authors/project.md exists, since that's the shared spine across all five plugins.

If you already know which plugin you want, you can skip the entry point and run that plugin's project-init directly. /constellation-start exists for the case where you don't.

What's new in v1.4

Polish from the cross-plugin quality review. No new user-facing features; everything is hygiene and parity with the rest of the constellation.

Added

• tests/smoke.sh — first smoke test for great-minds. Validates SKILL.md frontmatter, persona frontmatter (name / description / model / color), DXT persona-subset membership against agents/, version coherence across package.json / plugin.json / DXT manifests / DXT server self-report, DXT tool-handler alignment, and v1.3+ /constellation-start skill presence.
• LICENSE — MIT, matching the rest of the constellation. The plugin had been shipping without one.
• Frontmatter added to three SKILL.md files that predated the convention: agency-daemon, scope-check, agency-memory.
• color: field added to aaron-sorkin-screenwriter.md (the only persona missing it).

Changed

• distribution/plugin/skills/constellation-start/ — the lite distribution now includes the constellation entry point. Newcomers using the lite install can run /constellation-start without falling back to the full bundle. Phil Jackson's persona file in lite is also resynced with the constellation-aware expansion from v1.3.

Why

A cross-plugin review pass surfaced these as accumulated drift. None were user-blocking, but together they were a real consistency gap — every other plugin in the constellation had smoke tests, and great-minds was the most likely to drift without them given its breadth (22 personas, 20 skills, infrastructure for a swarm runtime).

What's new in v1.3

Constellation-level entry point. The plugin now has a discoverable starting point for newcomers to the entire Caseproof persona constellation (great-minds + great-authors + great-filmmakers + great-publishers + great-marketers — five plugins, each owning one craft).

• /constellation-start (new skill) — asks project-shape questions, routes to the right plugin's project-init or channels Phil Jackson for mixed projects. Discoverable, lightweight, ~150 lines.
• phil-jackson-orchestrator.md (expanded) — Phil's existing role (Zen-master swarm orchestrator within great-minds) is preserved unchanged; a new "Your Role at the Constellation Level" section adds the orchestration knowledge for cross-plugin work. Same triangle-offense logic; one level up. Eleven rings, not one.
• DXT bundle — adds the constellation_start tool. Available in Claude Desktop alongside the existing tools.
• Version coherence — DXT manifests caught up to plugin.json baseline (was 1.0.0; now 1.3.0 to match). Cleaner state for future smoke-test infrastructure.

Doesn't break anything. /agency-start and the entire agency-* swarm-pattern family stay intact — they're the right answer for software-product swarm projects, and /constellation-start dispatches to them when the user picks that branch.

What's new in v1.2

The three-layer architecture is now explicit and shipping. Grounded in 2026 research (Wharton, USC) on persona prompting — named expert personas excel at judgment but reduce factual accuracy on knowledge-heavy tasks; functional roles avoid that trap.