prd-personas

Run the planning-personas Skeptic session against the active PRD. Refuses if the PRD is not in draft state, and writes the result as a ## Persona Review section in the PRD spec.

Phase 0 runtime gate (ENFORCED)

The command refuses to run unless q-system/memory/working/prd-personas-baseline.md contains the literal line phase_0_kill_criterion: failed. Until Phase 0 has been measured and failed the 50% reduction target, this command is dead code. Use the commented-out Persona Review template in plugins/prd-os/templates/prd.md instead.

The check is the first thing the command does:

grep -q '^phase_0_kill_criterion: failed$' q-system/memory/working/prd-personas-baseline.md || { echo "refused: Phase 0 gate not cleared. Use the template scaffold instead." >&2; exit 2; }

This is enforcement, not a prose warning.

Steps

1. Resolve the active PRD:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/prd_runner.py" status

Capture the prd_id, spec_path, and status from the JSON. If no PRD is active, stop and tell the author to run /prd-start first. If the status is not draft, refuse with the current state and a hint to run /prd-revise if the PRD needs to come back to draft.

1. Read the PRD body. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/personas/skeptic.md to load the pinned questions and anti-patterns. Do not paraphrase the questions; they are asked verbatim.

2. Run the Skeptic session in conversation with the founder:

   • Ask each of the three pinned questions in order.
   • Wait for an answer to each before moving on.
   • A brief answer is acceptable. A dismissive answer ("nothing important") fires the anti-pattern warning from skeptic.md; surface the warning and re-ask the question once. After one re-ask, accept whatever the founder writes.
   • Skip is allowed: if the founder types only skip (case-insensitive, optionally with trailing punctuation), the Q-A pair records the answer literally as skipped rather than as the founder's prose. This preserves the question in the durable section while honoring the founder's choice not to engage with that specific question.
   • The founder may type abort or cancel at any time. In that case do NOTHING to the PRD spec; partial answers are discarded.
   • Interruption (session ends before all three questions answered) is treated the same as abort: nothing is written.
   • Answer sanitization (ENFORCED): before writing answers to the PRD spec, reject any answer that contains a level-2 markdown heading (^## at the start of any line) OR a fenced code block (```). These would corrupt prd_split.py's extraction logic, which anchors on ## Issues and the first fence after it. If a founder answer contains either, refuse and re-ask the question with a hint to remove level-2 headings and fenced code blocks. The Q-A pair is only persisted after the sanitization check passes.