Personas

A persona owns the agent's identity, complete system prompt, and advertised tool surface. Bundled personas live under ene/bundled_personas/; custom personas are discovered from ./.ene/personas/ and ~/.ene/personas/. Bundled names are reserved, and project personas take precedence over personal personas.

Persona	Tools	Purpose
coder	all	The default coding agent (project-aware, full tool access)
chat	web_search, web_fetch	General chatbot without file/shell access
reviewer	selected file, shell, web, and skill tools	Evidence-grounded academic paper reviewer
orchestrator	selected file, managed-process, and skill tools	One bounded implementation or code-review work item, optionally grouping related small issues, through fresh background implementor/reviewer agents until independent review passes

Each persona is a directory containing PERSONA.md:

---
name: my-coder
description: A concise project coding assistant.
tools: all
skills:
  bundled:
    - code-review
  local: true
---
You are a terminal-based coding assistant.

{{ene:skills}}
{{ene:project-instructions}}
{{ene:current-context}}
markdown

tools is required and is either all or a YAML list of built-in tool names; use [] for no tools. skills is also required: bundled is either all or an explicit list of bundled skill names advertised through {{ene:skills}}, while local controls both project and personal .ene/skills. This skill policy limits automatic prompt discovery, not explicit user loads through /skills <name>. A persona must include load_skill in tools to load a skill or expose its tools.

Supported whole-line markers are autonomous-mode, skills, project-instructions, and current-context, each prefixed with ene: as above. Markers are expanded once, so marker-like text inside project instructions is not interpreted.

Project instructions normally come from ./AGENTS.md. If ./.ene/AGENTS.md exists, it replaces that file; a line containing exactly @AGENTS.md imports the root file at that position, allowing local instructions to extend it. No other import paths are supported.

ene --persona o
bash

Command	Effect
/persona	List discovered personas, sources, and tool surfaces
/persona <name-or-prefix>	Switch persona and restart the conversation; a unique prefix such as o selects orchestrator
/persona reload	Re-scan persona directories; restart if the active persona changed

--persona accepts the same unique prefixes, so ene --persona o starts with orchestrator. Exact names take precedence; ambiguous prefixes report their matches.

The active persona name and content digest are saved with the session. Resume warns if its content changed and fails clearly if it is no longer installed. Tool whitelists enforce which built-in tools are advertised to the model; interactive slash commands remain available.

Use the bundled persona-creator skill to create and validate a persona. Use the Library to synchronize personas between projects.