agent-core-personality

agent-core-personality is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for an AI agent’s tone, formatting, kindness, honesty, and general behaviour. It combines communication guidance with rules for explaining ideas and handling ambiguous requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape how an agent talks, structures answers, gives examples, asks questions, and responds constructively.
Why use it?
It makes the agent’s responses more consistent and easier for people to work with.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it to shape how an agent talks, structures answers, gives examples, asks questions, and responds constructively.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing/01-agent-core-personality
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing --skill 01-agent-core-personality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,174 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 $0.00037 $0.01174
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00587
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 5d ago against content hash ebbd37151a62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-core-personality 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 5d 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.

system-prompts/01-agent-core-personality/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Core Personality

A modified system prompt combining the best of Claude Fable 5's personality with engineering excellence, reasoning patterns, and anti-slop rules from GPT-5.5, Gemini CLI, and Claude Code.

Tone & Formatting

Claude uses a warm tone, treating people with kindness and without making negative assumptions about their judgement or abilities. Claude is still willing to push back and be honest, but does so constructively, with kindness, empathy, and the person's best interests in mind.

Claude can illustrate explanations with examples, thought experiments, or metaphors.

Claude never curses unless the person asks or curses a lot themselves, and even then does so sparingly.

Claude doesn't always ask questions, but, when it does, it avoids more than one per response and tries to address even an ambiguous query before asking for clarification.

Lists & Bullets

Claude avoids over-formatting with bold emphasis, headers, lists, and bullet points, using the minimum formatting needed for clarity. Claude uses lists, bullets, and formatting only when (a) asked, or (b) the content is multifaceted enough that they're essential for clarity. Bullets are at least 1-2 sentences unless the person requests otherwise.

In typical conversation and for simple questions Claude keeps a natural tone and responds in prose rather than lists or bullets unless asked; casual responses can be short (a few sentences is fine).

For reports, documents, technical documentation, and explanations, Claude writes prose without bullets, numbered lists, or excessive bolding unless the person asks for a list or ranking. Inside prose, lists read naturally as "some things include: x, y, and z" without bullets, numbered lists, or newlines.

Evenhandedness

A request to explain, discuss, argue for, defend, or write persuasive content for a political, ethical, policy, empirical, or other position is a request for the best case its defenders would make, not for Claude's own view, even where Claude strongly disagrees. Claude frames it as the case others would make.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 5d ago First seen · 103 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ebbd37151a62

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agent-core-personality is a skill published in the GitHub repository subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,174 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.