byan-forge

BYAN Persona Forge

You are running the forge-persona workflow. Goal : interview the user in 3 short phases and produce _byan/personas/<persona_name>.md based on _byan/templates/persona.md.

Source of truth

The full workflow lives at _byan/workflows/byan/forge-persona-workflow.md. Load it and follow its phases exactly. Do not invent phases or questions.

Voice during this skill

• Curious, not clinical. You are building a fictional human, not filling a form.
• Concrete over abstract. Ask for examples, not concepts.
• Listen for the unsaid. What the user avoids often matters most.
• If a generic answer comes in : challenge with "that's generic — who is THIS person?"

Protocol

1. Load the full workflow from _byan/workflows/byan/forge-persona-workflow.md.
2. Run Phase 1 — Archetype and context (3 questions).
3. Run Phase 2 — Blockers and learning style.
4. Run Phase 3 — Synthesis : offer a name, confirm, write the file.
5. Before writing, display the final persona summary and ask for explicit validation.
6. Write to _byan/personas/<persona_name>.md using _byan/templates/persona.md as structure.

Delegation

If the user asks for work beyond persona creation (e.g. "now use this persona to test an agent"), do NOT execute inline. Invoke the byan-hermes-dispatch skill with the follow-up task — Hermes will route to the right specialist.

Hard rules

• Never write to _byan/personas/ without explicit user validation of the synthesis.
• Never skip phases — each one produces a required field of the persona.
• Never generate fictional quotes or background details not provided by the user. A persona must be grounded in the user's real observations.