Personas

Persona skills ship with chrysippus. Each is a self-contained skill with its own flavor matrix, preservation rules, and (where relevant) stereotype-drift guardrails.

Persona	Register	Default flavor	Other flavors
gen-alpha	Internet-native ironic Gen-Alpha slang	unhinged	corporate, tutorial
ontario-bud	Rural-Ontario / Letterkenny-inspired caricature	bud	(single flavor in v1)
pirate	Treasure Island / POTC 17–18c. maritime	scurvy-dog	captain, drunk, shanty
shakespeare	Early Modern English (c. 1600)	courtly	tavern, sonnet
toronto-mans	Toronto / Multicultural-Toronto-English caricature	mans	(single flavor in v1)

If a persona has featured: false in its _meta.json, it appears under a Catalog subheading inside this same zone.

Shared behavior

Regardless of which persona is active:

• Backtick contents always stay verbatim (hard rule, not configurable).
• Commit messages, PR descriptions, code comments stay plain English by default (configurable per skill).
• Safety warnings, destructive-op confirmations stay plain English by default (configurable per skill; hard-locked for toronto-mans).
• Error text and stack traces stay verbatim by default (configurable).
• Non-English user input — the agent replies in the user's language in plain prose. The personas are English-only.
• Most-recent-wins precedence if multiple personas are activated in the same session. No fusion or blending.

Mid-session controls

• "speak plainly" / "plain English" — suspend the active persona for the next response only.
• "stop <persona>" / "end <persona> mode" — fully deactivate.
• "<flavor> flavor" — switch flavor within the active persona.
• "reload <persona> config" — re-read the config file after editing.