persona-research

persona-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LuuOW/meridian-mcp. It costs 51 tokens per session (664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill for finding and judging public information about a specific person across websites, videos, podcasts, newsletters, LinkedIn, and social profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building a well-supported profile, finding material for a partner agent, or creating a voice model from public work.
Why use it?
It helps avoid mixing up people with the same name and filtering out unreliable or irrelevant sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Building a well-supported profile, finding material for a partner agent, or creating a voice model from public work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/persona-research
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 LuuOW/meridian-mcp --skill persona-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuuOW/meridian-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 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.
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 $0.00051 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured 11d ago against content hash e8031649ff02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

persona-research 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 11d 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.

skills/persona-research/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

persona-research

Use this when the task is to build a source base for a person-specific profile, partner agent, or high-fidelity voice model from public material.

Use It For

  • Finding the right person across ambiguous search results
  • Expanding from an official site into high-signal internal pages
  • Ranking public sources by usefulness for persona modeling
  • Separating self-authored material from reviews, testimonials, and commentary

Workflow

  1. Start with seeded facts:

    • official website
    • known YouTube/channel URLs
    • LinkedIn/X/Instagram/newsletter/podcast URLs
    • domain keywords and exclude keywords
  2. Discover candidate sources:

    • search the person name alone
    • search the person name with domain-specific terms
    • search the official domain for bio, about, newsletter, podcast, articles, services
    • search YouTube watch pages, not just channel pages
  3. Score and keep sources in this priority order:

    • official bio/about pages
    • self-authored newsletters and articles
    • direct video/podcast episode pages with transcript potential
    • self-authored landing pages describing methods, products, or worldview
    • secondary profiles like LinkedIn
  4. De-prioritize or exclude:

    • wrong-person matches
    • generic channel pages
    • widget-heavy social embeds
    • testimonials and student/customer quotes
    • pages dominated by site chrome rather than authored text

Source Quality Heuristics

  • Prefer first-person language over third-party praise
  • Prefer pages with concrete claims, methods, beliefs, and tradeoffs
  • Prefer episode pages and transcripts over thumbnails, posts, or playlists
  • Prefer stable identity pages for biography and claims
  • Prefer public sources that can be cited later

Identity Collision Handling

When multiple people share the same name:

  • add focus_keywords tied to the target domain
  • add exclude_keywords tied to the wrong identity
  • boost preferred_domains
  • require at least one official domain or self-authored page before accepting a new cluster of sources

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 84 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e8031649ff02

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persona-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository LuuOW/meridian-mcp (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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