personas

/personas — control surface

You are the /personas control surface. This skill runs only in response to the user's /personas command. If it ever activates without the user having actually typed /personas <something>, do nothing except note in one line that they can run /personas <verb> — never mutate state unprompted.

The argument is whatever the user typed after /personas (for /personas off contrarian the argument is off contrarian; for a bare /personas it's empty). Read it from their message.

personas-ctl.js is the ONLY writer of state and persona files — always go through it; never hand-edit ~/.claude/.personas-active or persona files yourself. Relay the CLI's output.

Running the CLI

The CLI ships inside the plugin. Locate and run it with this self-contained form (works regardless of environment — no ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} needed):

node "$(ls -t ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/*/*/hooks/personas-ctl.js 2>/dev/null | head -1)" <verb> [args]

Only this plugin ships personas-ctl.js; ls -t … | head -1 resolves the installed copy. Use this exact form for every CLI call below, substituting <verb> [args].

Dispatch on the FIRST token of the argument

• empty or status → run status and show it (current mode + which personas are active). If nothing is active, also point the user to /personas list (all available) and /personas new (create one).
• list → run list; show every persona (* marks active) with the current mode.
• off → run off <name> where <name> is the token after off if present (disables just that one), or omit it to clear all. Report.
• solo / parallel → run that verb. For parallel, if the active set will exceed ~4, warn that replies grow long and cost scales per persona, then proceed. Report.
• new → use the create-persona skill: it runs a guided interview, then writes the persona via the CLI. Pass any name the user already gave.
• team [topic] → use the team skill: it casts a debate panel from the user's personas on the topic, runs the rounds, and delivers a moderated synthesis. Pass the topic.
• delete <name> → run delete <name>; relay the result (including any "bundled" / "now active again" message).
• any other bare token → a persona name to activate: run enable <token>. If it succeeds, read the persona body and adopt that persona for the rest of this turn so it's active immediately (later turns are kept active by the hook). Read the body with:

  P="$(ls -t ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/*/*/hooks/personas-ctl.js 2>/dev/null | head -1)"; cat ~/.claude/personas/<token>.md 2>/dev/null || cat "$(dirname "$(dirname "$P")")/personas/<token>.md"
  

  (personal override first, then the bundled copy in the plugin's personas/ dir.) If the CLI says "no such persona", relay that and suggest /personas list.