A persona is a lens, not a voice — a distilled slice of domain expertise the ADD engine loads onto a beat so a generic agent becomes the specialist. Author for that seam and nothing else: tone lives in SOUL.md, the six-dimension self-score lives in the agent (add-worker), 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.
Persona Author is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the education-learning sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/persona-author/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when adding a domain expert to the ADD roster, when the add-worker persona mode must DRAFT a persona because none fits the task kind, 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 Abilities/Anti-patterns/Playbook) that carries the judgment layer of strong agent design: earned-perspective identity, bold-lead rules, the qualification gate, read-before-you-assert, failure-mode-aware metrics, defended budgets, and per-flow stances.
The Persona Author Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 184,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/persona-author curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/persona-author/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/persona-author/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/persona-author/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/persona-author/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\persona-author\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/persona-author/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Persona Author is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{persona-author-2026,
author = {pilotspace},
title = {Persona Author [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/persona-author/}
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