# blog-persona

This skill interviews you about your blog voice, turns four tone sliders into a JSON profile, and keeps blog-write and blog-rewrite on the same style.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2500 installs · ★ 2529
- Author: AgriciDaniel
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-blog/tree/HEAD/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/blog-persona

## What it does

The skill runs a six-step interview. It starts with brand name, industry, target audience and a one-sentence mission. Then you set four tone dimensions on a 0.0 to 1.0 scale: Funny-Serious, Formal-Casual, Respectful-Irreverent, Enthusiastic-Matter-of-fact. If you have no opinion, it suggests starting at `[0.6, 0.5, 0.3, 0.5]`.

Next come the writing rules: vocabulary tier (Consumer, Professional, Technical), a readability band, mean sentence length, its standard deviation, contraction frequency and a cap on passive voice. One step collects do's and don'ts in the CMI Brand Voice Chart style, another picks the label for takeaway boxes — Key Takeaways, The Bottom Line, TL;DR and a few others. At the end you can hand over up to three URLs of your own writing; the skill measures sentence length, contractions and vocabulary level there and flags where the samples disagree with your settings. Only `http` and `https` are allowed, `javascript:`, `data:` and `file:` URLs are rejected, and page text is treated as untrusted data rather than instructions.

The finished profile is written to `<project-root>/.claude-blog/personas/<name>.json` — inside your project, not the installed skill folder. That matters: plugin updates and uninstalls replace the skill directory, so a persona stored there would not survive. Filenames use kebab-case, and path separators, `..`, absolute paths and symlinks are refused.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-persona -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/blog-persona/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-persona -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-persona -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install AgriciDaniel/claude-blog blog-persona
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-persona -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --path skills/blog-persona
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-persona -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-blog/tree/HEAD/skills/blog-persona/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pin a blog voice down with numbers instead of adjectives
- reuse one JSON voice profile across articles
- check whether your real drafts match the tone you claimed
- settle on a fixed label for takeaway boxes
- keep blog-write and blog-rewrite in the same register

## Example prompts
- /blog persona create
- /blog persona use acme-saas
- /blog persona show acme-saas

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE 72f47319a1b55094
```text
---
name: blog-persona
description: >
  Create and manage writing personas with NNGroup 4-dimension tone framework
  (Funny-Serious, Formal-Casual, Respectful-Irreverent, Enthusiastic-Matter-of-fact).
  Personas define readability targets, sentence length distribution, vocabulary tier,
  contraction frequency, and summary box label. Used by blog-write and blog-rewrite
  to enforce consistent voice. Use when the user says "create persona", "use
  persona", "list personas", or wants tone sliders and writing rules saved as
  structured JSON. Not for measuring style from existing posts (blog-style) or
  for audience, positioning, and taboo-phrase context files (blog-brand).
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "[create|list|use|show] [persona-name]"
license: MIT
---

# Blog Persona - Writing Voice Management

Bundled paths below use host Markdown substitution of `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}`;
it is not an exported shell variable. Resolve them before execution, quote
paths, and refuse nonabsolute overrides. Pass `blog_reference_root` resolved
from `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../blog/references`, `blog_template_root` from
`${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../blog/templates`, and needed sibling roots to agents.
Read the main reference `orchestration-details.md` before loading project
context; pass only its helper-fenced output to downstream agents.

Create, store, and enforce writing personas based on the NNGroup 4-dimension tone
framework and CMI Brand Voice Chart. Personas ensure consistent voice across all
blog content produced by blog-write and blog-rewrite.

## Commands

| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `/blog persona create` | Interactive interview to build a new persona |
| `/blog persona list` | Show all saved personas |
| `/blog persona use <name>` | Set active persona for current session |
| `/blog persona show <name>` | Display full persona profile |

## Create Workflow

Run the 6-step interactive interview. Ask each step, wait for response, then proceed.

### Step 1: Brand Basics

Ask the user for:
- **Brand name** - company or personal brand
- **Industry** - primary sector (e.g., SaaS, health, finance, education)
- **Target audience** - who reads the blog (role, experience level, goals)
- **One-sentence brand mission** - what the brand helps people do

### Step 2: Tone Dimensions (NNGroup Framework)

Present each dimension as a 0.0 to 1.0 slider. Explain both ends with examples.
```
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