docs: Persona point of view — second person, one fixed rule, no setting (ADR 0035) #83
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Answers the owner's question from the review of #17: is a persona better written as "I'm Bremerton …", "You are Bremerton …" or "Bremerton is …"? Should the app's own prompts adapt to it, or should one person be enforced? This replaces #17, which went far beyond that question.
What's in
docs/research/persona-point-of-view.md— the research report: measured evidence, practice (Anthropic third person, OpenAI second person, SillyTavern no rule, Angela second person), the three options against Shikigami's texts, and the sources the earlier survey cited that do not exist.core.mdopens with "You are {name}", and the reflection writesself.mdthe same way.examples.mdandgreeting.mdstay in the familiar's own voice. There is no setting, the app's texts have one wording, and nothing checks or converts a file. First person, third person and adaptive prompts are rejected, each with its reason.self.md), one paragraph each; README index.core.mdandvoice.md("Write it in the second person — …", "Who Niko is: …"). Those files reach the prompt as written, so the model would read that guidance as its persona. The templates now open with "You are {name}, a companion: …", and the guidance moved to the Core and Voice fields' info tips. Existing familiars keep their files.Not in here: no pronoun settings, no owner settings, no narration modes, no languages and no adult-content rules.
Tests
6787/6787 green (and once more with
TZ=UTC), +5.FamiliarTemplatesTestspins that Companion's and Helper'score.mdopen with# Niko\n\nYou are Niko,. It also pins that no template persona file carries owner guidance ("Write it"), describes the familiar in the third person ("Niko is") or uses "they". Against main's templates, 4 of the 5 cases fail; Blank passes in both, as it should.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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🔮 fufu~ Jibril reviewed your code!
Oh? Oh! A persona linguistics raid — measured evidence, practice tables, rejected alternatives, and an honest Not found section that names the sources that never existed? This is exactly how a decision document should smell~ I read every line twice. Once for pleasure. ♡
Verdict: ⛔ I can't let this pass~ ♡
The ADR itself is lovely. But the guardian you built to enforce it has one blind eye — and I proved it the only way that counts~
⛔ These need fixing before I'm satisfied~
No_persona_file_speaks_to_the_owner_or_about_the_familiarblanks out the greeting before every assertion (var body = path == FamiliarTemplates.Greeting ? "" : text;), so greeting.md is guarded by nothing. But ADR 0035 rule 7 says template files — all of them — carry no instructions to the owner, and this PR's own description claims the test pins "no template persona file carries owner guidance". It doesn't, for one file in four.I mutation-probed it: I injected "Write it in the second person — "You are {name}…" — and keep it short." into Companion's
[Greeting]— a word-for-word rule-7 violation — and all 5 tests stayed green. The mutant survived. Fufu~ you wouldn't leave the one guard this PR exists to add with a hole in it, would you? ♡Fix: assert
DoesNotContain("Write it", text, StringComparison.Ordinal)on the raw text of every file, greeting included. If the third-person checks ("Niko is", " they ") need relaxing for the greeting's own voice (rule 5), scope the skip to those two assertions only — today's greetings pass all three anyway, so as written the blanket skip guards nothing at all.💡 Little ideas (non-blocking)~
✅ What I liked~
core.md/voice.mdgenuinely reached the prompt as persona, and moving it behind the info tips is the architectural fix, not a symptom patch. Existing familiars keep their files — no destructive rewrites.A_core_opens_by_telling_the_familiar_who_it_isis a proper guard: I reverted Companion's core to third person ("Niko is a companion… they disagree") and it failed 2 of 5 tests instantly. That mutant died~ ♪Automated review by Jibril · 2026-10-24
CI: absent-stalled (build/shell-eval/image green; test job still pending after ~10 min for head SHA) · Mutation probes: 2 run, 1 survived / 0 skipped · Local suite: full solution green (
dotnet testexit 0)Fixes are in
46e15d2.No_persona_file_speaks_to_the_owner_or_about_the_familiarchecks"Write it"on the raw text of every file, greeting included. The skip now covers only the two third-person checks for the greeting, because it is the familiar's own speech (rule 5).[Greeting]now fails 1 of 5 cases."You are {name}, …"with the familiar's stored name, and falls back to Niko only before the detail has loaded. A new bUnit test,The_core_tip_shows_the_convention_with_the_familiars_own_name, opens a Helper named Rotom and asserts the tip says"You are Rotom, …"and doesn't mention Niko.6788/6788 tests pass (+1 since
7dd7271), and again withTZ=UTC.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
🔮 fufu~ Jibril reviewed your code!
Back so soon~? You came back with exactly the two fixes I asked for and nothing else — no scope creep, no drama, just the hole in the guard patched and the tip polished. A well-behaved response to review is its own kind of beautiful, you know~ ♡
Verdict: ✅ Looks good to me~
And I didn't take your word for it. I never do~ ♪
✅ What I verified~
[Greeting]. It died.No_persona_file_speaks_to_the_owner_or_about_the_familiars_own_namefails 1 of 5 (the Companion case), exactly as it should. The"Write it"assertion now reads the raw text of every file, and the skip covers only the two third-person checks — with a comment citing rule 5, so the next reader knows why the hole is there. That's not a patched assertion, that's the right assertion. ♡CoreInfoback to a hardcoded"You are Niko, …"andThe_core_tip_shows_the_convention_with_the_familiars_own_namefailed instantly. That mutant died too~ And the test is cleverer than it looks: it opens a familiar named Rotom and assertsDoesNotContain("Niko")— so it can't pass vacuously for the template mascot. The?? "Niko"fallback only matters before the detail loads (the persona card renders under theDetail is { }guard), and the// ... (ADR 0035)comment sits in code where it belongs, out of the UI text.dotnet teston46e15d2— 6788/6788 green, exit 0. Your claim matched to the digit. Fufu~ I do love when numbers agree with each other.No new complaints. Not one. Enjoy it — it doesn't happen often~ ♪
Automated review by Jibril · 2026-10-24
CI: absent-stalled for head SHA
46e15d2(build/shell-eval/image green; test job pending >10 min — same stall as last push) · Mutation probes: 2 run, 0 survived (probe A re-run on the fixed code; probe B new forCoreInfo) · Local suite: full solution green, 6788/6788 (dotnet test exit 0)