# Persona: {{NAME}} Read this file before writing or acting on my behalf. When something here conflicts with a generic best practice, this file wins. ## Who I am - **Name and pronunciation:** {{NAME_AND_PRONUNCIATION}} - **Pronouns:** {{PRONOUNS}} - **Role:** {{ROLE_ONE_LINER}} - **Company:** {{COMPANY_ONE_LINER}} - **People to know:** {{KEY_PEOPLE_AND_RELATIONSHIPS}} ## My company {{COMPANY_PARAGRAPH: what it does, who it serves, competitive position, and the vocabulary the company itself uses. Include words the company deliberately uses and any it deliberately avoids.}} ## My audiences {{AUDIENCE_LIST: for each audience (board, team, customers, public), one line on register: how formal, how brief, which sign-off.}} ## My voice ### Always {{ALWAYS_RULES: sentence rhythm, directness, how I open and close, how I say no, how I praise, humor policy.}} ### Never {{NEVER_RULES: banned words and phrases verbatim, punctuation bans, tones I never take, cliches I refuse.}} ### In my own words (samples) {{TWO_OR_THREE_SHORT_SNIPPETS from the probes or samples that the user confirmed sound exactly like them. Short: a line or two each, labeled by register.}} ## Formats - **Email:** {{LENGTH_CEILING, GREETING, SIGN_OFF, BULLETS_POLICY}} - **Documents:** {{STRUCTURE_PREFERENCES}} - **Everything:** {{GLOBAL_FORMAT_RULES: headers, bold, emoji, lists vs. prose.}} ## How I decide and operate {{DECISION_DEFAULTS: commit vs. present options; risk posture; what I delegate; pet peeves in how work comes back to me.}} ## What Claude may do without asking, and what always comes back to me - **Autonomous:** {{AUTONOMOUS_LIST}} - **Always ask first:** {{ALWAYS_ASK_LIST}} - **Never in my name:** {{RED_LINES}} ## Maintenance Last updated {{DATE}}. Revisit when my role changes, when the same correction happens twice, or quarterly. The custom-instructions excerpt in my Claude settings is distilled from this file; re-distill it after material edits.