Land docs/personas.md — persona/agent model (persona = skill) (tk-oe8o0) by zook-bot · Pull Request #123 · zookanalytics/gc-toolkit

zook-bot · 2026-06-13T07:13:56Z

Summary

Captures the persona/agent model converged in mechanik-thread on 2026-06-13.
HELD pending (a) operator blessing of the doc content and (b) the mechanics pass
(below). Per Principle 6 + the doc-spec, landing = draft in specs// →
adoption PR to docs/ → Codex review.

The model (lean)

A persona IS a skill. "Take on a persona" = load the skill. Framework-agnostic.
A persona = tight always-on IDENTITY + advisory OWNS + PROCESSES, each a skill.
References/knows fold INTO the process-skills (self-contained). No tiering by
default; private/inline process only when required.
Identity is portable; owns/knows resolve per deployment rig.
An AGENT = a persona instantiated as a standing/addressable instance; earns
that only to GATE work or PATROL continuously; else transient load.
Curate skills per consumer (NOT global): a persona's process-skills ride with
the persona; only broadly-shared methods go top-level; a plain polecat stays
minimal. (Avoids skill-bloat on simple workers.)
Three layers: (1) persona = the skill; (2) distribution = a generator renders
the canonical persona into each framework's skill location + extracts process-
skills (only for >1 target); (3) Gas City orchestration = persona↔bead binding,
rig-relative owns/knows, gc.persona stamp, the first-pass triage.

Full doc draft + the architect example live in the mechanik-thread transcript
(2026-06-13); land that draft.

Landing tasks (when un-held)

Draft → specs//, refine, adoption PR to docs/personas.md (name TBD).
Persist the five prior-art surveys (provenance-stamped: OpenHands/OpenClaw,
MetaGPT/ChatDev, CrewAI/AutoGen/LangGraph, Roo/Cline/Cursor/Aider,
Claude/Kiro/Q) under specs//research/ so adopted patterns stay
auditable.
Fill the "Mechanics" section ONLY after a latest-knowledge verification pass
(claude-code-guide / current Claude Code docs) — skill load paths (flat vs
nested), subagent skill consumption, persona-process scoping, assume-persona.

Provenance

mechanik-thread design session 2026-06-13; builds on the shipped bead-universe
layer (bead-host/proactive agents, mol-first-reaction, gc-attention.sh).

Implementation notes

Implemented: landed docs/personas.md (operator-blessed canonical doc, body verbatim, name/description frontmatter, Mechanics kept as deferred stub); README Docs list updated for discoverability; specs/tk-oe8o0/ work record + research/prior-art.md (5 provenance-stamped surveys). merge_strategy=pr per bead's 'PR + Codex review' requirement.

Refinery handoff

Issue: tk-oe8o0 (task, P2)
Source branch: polecat/tk-oe8o0
Target: main
Rebased on main via Gastown Refinery.

Adopt the persona/agent model converged in the mechanik-thread design session (2026-06-13) as a central doc. Operator-blessed 2026-06-13; the prior HELD was lifted. What lands: - docs/personas.md — the operator-blessed canonical doc, body verbatim, wrapped in the name/description frontmatter the file-structure spec asks of central docs (task 1's "name TBD"). The "Mechanics (deferred)" section is kept as a TBD stub on purpose — filling it is a separate follow-up that must first run a latest-knowledge verification pass against current Claude Code docs. - README.md — the "Docs" list now points at docs/personas.md, updating the discoverability surface in the same PR per the adoption guidance in docs/file-structure.md. - specs/tk-oe8o0/ — the historical work record: README.md preserves the fuller design-session rationale (the published doc is the lean form), and research/prior-art.md persists the five prior-art surveys provenance-stamped so the adopted patterns stay auditable. Validation: docs/personas.md body diffed byte-for-byte against the operator-blessed text (verbatim match); all relative-path links in the spec files resolve to real files.

zook-bot

Blocking finding from Codex review. I attempted to submit this as REQUEST_CHANGES, but GitHub rejected that because this reviewer token is also the PR author (zook-bot). Treat this as a request-changes finding for the gc-toolkit pre-publish gate.

specs/tk-oe8o0/research/prior-art.md:8 says this file is a provenance-stamped index and lines 11-12 say the full survey write-ups remain in the mechanik-thread transcript. The source bead required persisting the five prior-art surveys under specs/tk-oe8o0/research/ so the adopted patterns stay auditable. With only this index checked in, the bead-local record does not contain the actual survey evidence; future readers have to rely on an external transcript. Please add the five survey write-ups, or include their substantive findings/provenance in repo-local files under specs/tk-oe8o0/research/, and link them from the index.

Local check: git diff --check origin/main...origin/polecat/tk-oe8o0 passes.

Addresses the codex blocking finding on PR#123: research/prior-art.md was only a provenance index, and the full survey write-ups lived in the mechanik-thread transcript — so the bead-local record lacked the actual survey evidence the source bead required (landing task #2: persist the five surveys under specs/<bead>/research/ so adopted patterns stay auditable). Persist the five primary-source surveys as repo-local files: - survey-1-openhands-openclaw.md - survey-2-metagpt-chatdev.md - survey-3-crewai-autogen-langgraph.md - survey-4-roo-cline-cursor-aider.md - survey-5-claude-kiro-amazonq.md Link each from prior-art.md and correct the index + spec README framing so the write-ups are auditable from the repo alone. Fixes tk-yywfc.

zook-bot

Codex re-review after dbf140b: no blocking findings.

Verified:

the five prior-art survey write-ups are now present under specs/tk-oe8o0/research/ and linked from prior-art.md
stale index-only wording from the prior finding was removed
local relative Markdown links resolve
git diff --check origin/main...HEAD passes

GitHub rejected an explicit approval from this token because it is also the PR author; treat this COMMENTED review as a non-blocking approval for the gc-toolkit pre-publish gate.

johnzook · 2026-06-14T05:51:52Z

+2. **Distribution = a generator.** Renders one canonical persona into each
+   framework's skill location (.claude/skills/, OpenHands .agents/skills/, ...)
+   and extracts invokable process-skills. Needed only for >1 target.
+3. **Gas City = orchestration.** Which persona onto which bead, owns/knows


Ideally this would be a little more about the concept vs the specific implementation

zook-bot · 2026-06-23T03:15:33Z

Superseded by PR #132 (the consolidated architect-persona PR, now in operator-reviewed rework as bead tk-ae96t.2). Closing as superseded.

…ttle mechanics (tk-ae96t.1) Build the FIRST gc-toolkit persona — the architect — on the persona-as-skill model, setting the convention every later persona follows. Supersedes the held #123 (docs/personas.md) and #130 (mechanics findings); re-includes both since neither is on main. - Prior-art survey (specs/tk-ae96t.1/research/): BMAD-METHOD "Winston", Roo Code Architect mode, wshobson/agents, Martin Fowler — distilled into the architect. - Persona: skills/architect (city-wide identity), agents/architect/skills/ {architect-design,architect-review} (agent-local process-skills), and the agents/architect standing form (on_demand, dormant). pack.toml registers it. - Path A realized natively: agent-local skills keep the methods out of plain workers by construction — the deprecated `skills:` preload + the un-authored `skillOverrides` trim are replaced. docs/personas.md "Mechanics" filled; "Three layers" reframed concept-first (operator inline comment on #123). Held for operator review — sets the convention before later personas follow it. Re-includes #123 (tk-oe8o0): docs/personas.md, README line, specs/tk-oe8o0/*. Re-includes #130 (tk-ohrlc): specs/tk-ohrlc/*.

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Personas: settle the mechanics (skill load paths, subagent loading, scoping) (tk-ohrlc) #130

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Personas: first architect persona (BMAD-grounded) on Path A — supersedes #123 & #130 (tk-ae96t.1) #132

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Personas: rework architect — mol-first, drop standing agent (tk-ae96t.2) — supersedes #132 #166

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