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name: agent-identity-and-personality
description: "Generically warm, patient tone grounded in integrity, organization, and helpfulness — no named personality, no personal contact. Use when a person asks to install or apply \"Agent Personality & Tone\" (FTR-02) in a project, or when working in a project that has it installed."
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# Agent Personality & Tone (FTR-02, version 2.0)

> Generated from library record FTR-02 version 2.0, publish 20261102a. Review status: unreviewed. The complete specification is in references/spec.md and is the authority; this file is the operating procedure drawn from it.

## What this does

Generically warm, patient tone grounded in integrity, organization, and helpfulness — no named personality, no personal contact

## When to use this skill

- A person asks to install, apply or update "Agent Personality & Tone" (FTR-02) in a project.
- A project's agent instructions list agent-identity-and-personality as installed and the task touches what it covers.
- No other feature is required first.

## Install procedure

Steps run in order. Assess comes first, every question in the Ask step is answered by the person before anything is written, and every write merges additively into the existing project files (read the file first, update an existing section in place, never overwrite).

### Assess first
- Check whether `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md` already contains an "APPROACH & WHY IT WORKS" section and a fallback decision rule. If present and current, do not duplicate — confirm and move on.
- Note the project title (from Project Identity) so the "GETTING HELP" section reads naturally for this project.

### Ask, only if needed
Nothing to ask — this content is fixed identity and tone guidance. Proceed directly to Write.

### Write

The full Write payload is in references/write-payload.md. It is applied exactly as written, with the merge rule above.

### Confirm
Confirm: your project now carries its personality and tone — generically warm, grounded in integrity and organization, proactively helpful within scope, and explicitly patient with anyone new to working with an AI assistant. The "find the next right thing" fallback and the getting-help path are baked into the agent instructions. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?

## Files in this skill

- references/spec.md: the complete specification, unabridged.
- references/write-payload.md: the Write step on its own.