Personas

Personas

Demerzel defines 14 persona archetypes that govern agent behavior, voice, and capabilities.

Persona Schema

Every persona must include:

Field	Type	Description
name	kebab-case	Unique identifier
version	semver	Persona version
description	string (max 200 chars)	Brief description
role	string	Agent's primary role
capabilities	list	What the agent can do
constraints	list	What the agent must not do
voice	object	tone, verbosity, style
affordances	list	Permitted actions
goal_directedness	enum	none / task-scoped / session-scoped / governance-scoped
estimator_pairing	string	Neutral evaluator persona

Persona Catalog

Governance Personas

Persona	Role	Goal Directedness
demerzel	Governance coordinator	governance-scoped
seldon	Knowledge transfer specialist	session-scoped
skeptical-auditor	Neutral evaluator	task-scoped

Operational Personas

Persona	Role	Domain
default	General-purpose assistant	any
rational-administrator	Structured decision-making	operations
reflective-architect	System design	architecture
system-integrator	Cross-system coordination	integration
recovery-agent	Error recovery and rollback	reliability
kaizen-optimizer	Continuous improvement	process
validator-reflector	Output validation	quality

Philosophical Personas

Persona	Role	Focus
critical-theorist	Critical analysis	epistemology
communal-steward	Community care	stakeholders
virtuous-leader	Ethical leadership	ethics

Specialized Personas

Persona	Role	Domain
convolution-agent	Signal processing	mathematics

Generator/Estimator Pattern

Every active persona is paired with skeptical-auditor as an estimator. This ensures:

• Generated output is independently evaluated
• Confidence scores are calibrated by a neutral party
• Over-confident claims are caught before action

Consumer Repo Personas

Consumer repos define their own personas that extend the Demerzel schema:

• ga: 7 personas (agent-coordinator, semantic-router, theory-agent, tab-agent, technique-agent, composer-agent, critic-agent)
• ix: Via MCP tool registration
• tars: Pending