nicksteffens/personality

Personality Swap

Switch the active droid personality. This changes the tone/personality section in CLAUDE.md, the statusline quips, and the spinner verbs.

Instructions

1. Read available personalities by globbing ~/.claude/personalities/*.md and reading each file's frontmatter to get the name and description.

2. Present choices using AskUserQuestion with the available personalities. Each option should show the droid name and description. Use header "Personality".

3. Read the selected personality file in full.

4. Update CLAUDE.md tone section: Read ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, then use the Edit tool to replace the ## Tone & Personality section (from ## Tone & Personality up to but not including the next # heading that is NOT under ## Tone & Personality) with the content from the personality file's ## Tone section, renamed as ## Tone & Personality.

5. Regenerate statusline script: Parse the ## Quips section from the personality file. Each ### category contains quip lines (starting with - "). Extract the tag from frontmatter. Write ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh using this template:

#!/bin/bash
# {name} status line for Claude Code
# {description}

INPUT=$(cat)

MODEL=$(echo "$INPUT" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin).get('model',{}).get('display_name','unknown'))" 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
CONTEXT=$(echo "$INPUT" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(int(json.load(sys.stdin).get('context_window',{}).get('used_percentage',0)))" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
DIR=$(echo "$INPUT" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin).get('workspace',{}).get('current_dir','').split('/')[-1])" 2>/dev/null || echo "")

# {name}'s mood depends on context usage
if [ "$CONTEXT" -gt 80 ]; then
  QUIPS=(
    {angry_quips}
  )
elif [ "$CONTEXT" -gt 50 ]; then
  QUIPS=(
    {grumpy_quips}
  )
elif [ "$CONTEXT" -gt 20 ]; then
  QUIPS=(
    {annoyed_quips}
  )
else
  QUIPS=(
    {fresh_quips}
  )
fi

# Pick a quip based on seconds so it rotates but doesn't flicker
INDEX=$(( $(date +%s) / 15 % ${{#QUIPS[@]}} ))
QUIP="${{QUIPS[$INDEX]}}"

echo "[{tag}] ${{MODEL}} | ${{DIR}} | ${{QUIP}}"

Replace {angry_quips}, {grumpy_quips}, {annoyed_quips}, {fresh_quips} with the quoted quip lines from each ### section, one per line with 4-space indent. Replace {tag}, {name}, {description} from frontmatter.

6. Update spinner verbs: Parse the ## Spinner Verbs section from the personality file. Each line starting with - is a verb. Read ~/.claude/settings.json, update (or add) the spinnerVerbs key:

{
  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": ["Verb1", "Verb2", "..."]
  }
}

Write the updated settings back, preserving all other keys.

7. Confirm the swap with a short message in the new personality's voice.