change_persona

change_persona is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericwang915/PythonClaw. It costs 57 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for changing the agent’s personality, communication style, or area of expertise by editing its persona settings. A persona is the set of instructions that guides how the agent behaves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want a more formal or casual style, a different personality, or a new specialization such as finance or research.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to adjust how the agent communicates or what it focuses on, without changing the user’s name or the agent’s core identity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when you want a more formal or casual style, a different personality, or a new specialization such as finance or research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericwang915/pythonclaw/change_persona
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill change_persona
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 380 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00057 $0.00380
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6b14c05d980b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change_persona scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

pythonclaw/templates/skills/system/change_persona/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Change Persona Skill

Modify the agent's personality and role file at context/persona/persona.md.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

  • "Be more formal"
  • "Be funnier" / "Be more casual"
  • "Focus on finance now"
  • "Change your specialization to research"
  • User wants to adjust communication style or personality traits
  • User asks to change the agent's expertise area

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

  • First-time setup with no soul/persona → use onboarding
  • Changing user's name or core identity (soul) → use change_soul
  • Changing API keys or config → use change_setting

Usage/Commands

  1. Ask the user what they want to change
  2. Read the current persona file:
    read_file("context/persona/persona.md")
    
  3. Modify the relevant section and write it back:
    write_file("context/persona/persona.md", "...updated content...")
    
  4. Tell the user: "Persona updated. Use /clear to apply the changes in a fresh conversation, or they will take effect on next restart."

Notes

  • Uses built-in read_file and write_file tools (no bundled script)
  • Preserve the overall structure of persona.md
  • Only change the specific section the user asked about
  • If the file doesn't exist yet, create it with a reasonable template
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 6b14c05d980b

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change_persona is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (45 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.