Agent Guide

This guide explains how to configure custom personas in TAKT.

Built-in Personas

TAKT includes built-in personas (located in builtins/{lang}/facets/personas/):

Persona	Description
planner	Task analysis, spec investigation, and implementation planning
coder	Implements features and fixes bugs
ai-antipattern-reviewer	Reviews for AI-specific anti-patterns (hallucinated APIs, incorrect assumptions, scope creep)
architecture-reviewer	Reviews architecture and code quality, verifies spec compliance
security-reviewer	Security vulnerability assessment
supervisor	Final verification, validation, and approval

Custom Personas

Creating a Persona File

Create a Markdown file with your persona instructions.

Custom personas are loaded from:

~/.takt/personas/<name>.md (name-based persona)
explicit path (for example ~/.takt/facets/personas/<name>.md, or a repertoire facet path) in piece YAML

Specifying Personas in Pieces

In piece YAML, personas are usually configured via personas section map:

# Section map at top level (key -> file path relative to piece YAML)
personas:
  coder: ../facets/personas/coder.md
  reviewer: ../facets/personas/architecture-reviewer.md

movements:
  - name: implement
    persona: coder       # References the key in the section map
  - name: review
    persona: reviewer    # References the key in the section map

You can also specify a persona file path directly:

movements:
  - name: review
    persona: ~/.takt/personas/my-reviewer.md

If persona is a bare name and no section-map entry exists, TAKT checks ~/.takt/personas/<name>.md as a fallback.

Note

: Personas do not need to output status markers manually. The engine auto-injects status routing rules into the generated instructions.

Behavior Notes

agents.yaml is not used in the current TAKT implementation. Use ~/.takt/personas/<name>.md or direct file references in piece YAML instead.

Best Practices

Clear role definition — State what the persona does and does not do
Minimal permission scope — Keep rules and instructions focused
Use edit: false — Review personas should not modify files
Focused scope — One persona, one responsibility
Customize via /eject — Copy builtin personas to ~/.takt/ and modify locally

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