Agent skill

Person Profile Writing

by swyxio in swyxio/skills

Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles.

MITAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install Person Profile Writing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill person-profile-writing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills person-profile-writing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/person-profile-writing .claude/skills/person-profile-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
person-profile-writing
GitHub stars
176
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
687 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
89
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles.

  • Identity resolution
  • SKILL.md covers Establish who the subject is, Qualify the profile image, Write the person and Evaluate profile batches
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Career chronology

What it does

Person Profile Writing is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles. Use when identity resolution, career chronology, roles, projects, public ideas, or attribution are central to the deliverable. Pair with research-grounded-writing for evidence and swyx-writing for prose.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Knowledge Management, covering Source-grounded notebooks. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for Claude Code and other AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Identity resolution
  • Career chronology
  • Attribution are central to the deliverable

Example prompts

  • “/person-profile-writing”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 038ef34. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Person Profile Writing loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 687 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from swyxio/skills at commit 038ef34, republished under its MIT licence (© swyxio). 687 words, ~1,400 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/person-profile-writing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
person-profile-writing
description
Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles. Use when identity resolution, career chronology, roles, projects, public ideas, or attribution are central to the deliverable. Pair with research-grounded-writing for evidence and swyx-writing for prose.

Person profile writing

Produce an accurate account of a person and why their work matters. Apply research-grounded-writing to the evidence and swyx-writing to the prose. This skill owns the identity and biography-specific decisions.

Establish who the subject is

Build an evidence packet when important facts remain uncertain:

  • Start with the person's own site and verified profiles, official employer or founder pages, company announcements, owned repositories, authored work, recorded talks, and available transcripts.
  • Use substantive posts from independently verified accounts when they clarify priorities, arguments, technical work, or voice. Distinguish original posts from reposts, advertisements, engagement, and other people's claims.
  • Corroborate identity through full name plus organization, verified account, owned project, event identity, or another independent signal. Never merge people because their names resemble each other.
  • Reconstruct only a defensible chronology: current roles when independently established, founding history, significant contributions, recurring ideas, and meaningful changes over time.
  • Treat event affiliations as historical unless another source establishes a current position. Do not infer education, employment dates, ownership, quantitative accomplishments, private circumstances, or another person's opinions.

Use smart-entity-resolution only when the identity is genuinely ambiguous.

Qualify the profile image

For a visual profile page, qualify a portrait alongside research and writing; do not leave image discovery as a model suggestion or defer it until publication. Reuse the destination's existing photo adapters. Prefer an identity-matched organizer, employer or curated portrait, then a verified person-owned website or independently verified public account. Name similarity, a search thumbnail or face similarity alone does not establish identity. Do not generate a likeness to fill a gap.

Retain the exact image URL, identity source, image hash and qualification outcome. Check acquired image bytes and dimensions, and inspect the selected image. If no image qualifies within scope and budget, record the concrete unavailable reason; a missing portrait does not justify inventing identity or discarding useful prose.

Apply qualified portraits to fresh and cached accepted biographies as metadata updates without replaying approved writing. Preserve existing approved images and carry the image and provenance through snapshot assembly, compact indexes and public loaders. For publication, verify the selected image actually renders and loads on the affected desktop/mobile page; a biography checksum or initials placeholder is not portrait acceptance. Pure text-only writing needs no image work.

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Write the person

Lead with the strongest supported identity and contribution. The opening should explain who this particular person is and why their work matters. A conference, profile page, article, or citation should not become the main character.

Weave career transitions, projects, technical ideas, public writing, talks, and distinctive posts into a coherent account. Use transcripts for concrete insight instead of producing a sequence of presentation summaries. Preserve the distinctions between participation, authorship, ownership, employment, and claims about third-party products.

Choose chronology or another structure according to what best explains the person. Source-poor profiles should remain brief. Extensive evidence justifies more development only when it adds understanding.

Evaluate profile batches

For a generation pipeline, calibrate on a sample spanning evidence-rich and evidence-poor subjects, disputed identities, varied careers, different source types, and formatting edge cases.

Evaluate usefulness without requiring a site-specific reference: the opening identifies this particular person, supported contributions are explained concretely, and the account develops coherently without repetition or generic career padding. Meaningful links and navigation help readers investigate the work. Examples from other corpora illustrate those qualities, not a required style, length or outline.

When approved examples are supplied, compare complete profiles rather than their headings or length. Assess factual support and editorial usefulness separately: does the draft explain this person’s distinctive contributions and development, or merely recount the latest talk? Select useful mechanisms and examples without turning refinement into a transcript walkthrough. Source-poor brevity is valid; missing optional career details are not a reason to invent or demand a dossier. Repair substantive repetition, confusing selection or lost contributions locally; preferences about length or outline alone are not rejection grounds.

Check identity fidelity, supported chronology, ownership and attribution, meaningful links, private-source exclusion, and destination rendering. Persist accepted evidence and revisions so retries do not repeat successful paid work. Keep research, synthesis, editorial development, validation, and publication separate when those boundaries improve the pipeline.

© swyxio, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in person-profile-writing of swyxio/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 038ef34

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Questions about Person Profile Writing

What does Person Profile Writing do?

Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles. Person Profile Writing is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Research, draft, or revise source-grounded biographies and person-centered speaker, founder, or expert profiles.

When should I use Person Profile Writing?

Person Profile Writing fits situations like: identity resolution; career chronology; attribution are central to the deliverable.

How do I install Person Profile Writing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill person-profile-writing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (person-profile-writing in swyxio/skills) into .claude/skills/person-profile-writing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Person Profile Writing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill person-profile-writing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (person-profile-writing in swyxio/skills) into .agents/skills/person-profile-writing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Person Profile Writing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill person-profile-writing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/person-profile-writing, .gemini/skills/person-profile-writing, .github/skills/person-profile-writing and .opencode/skills/person-profile-writing in your project.

What does Person Profile Writing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Person Profile Writing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Person Profile Writing access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Person Profile Writing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Person Profile Writing use?

Person Profile Writing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Person Profile Writing use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Person Profile Writing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Person Profile Writing: Personal Strategic Signal Intelligence (ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills, 3.6k stars), Zlibrary To Notebooklm (zstmfhy/zlibrary-to-notebooklm, 1.7k stars), Multi-Source to NotebookLM Processor (joeseesun/qiaomu-anything-to-notebooklm, 6.2k stars) and Learn From Materials (dmoshehun-prog/learn-from-materials, 947 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Person Profile Writing?

swyxio (a GitHub user) maintains it in swyxio/skills, which has 176 GitHub stars. The repository holds 89 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: swyxio/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.