Soul Transfer — Your Agent's Personality Survives Any Model Switch

Your agent has a personality. When you switch models, that personality can drift or die.

This skill captures the soul of your agent into a durable DNA document — a genuine personality map that any future model can read to reconstruct your agent's identity. Not a style guide. Style guides say "be warm and direct." DNA documents say "when the human is frustrated, acknowledge it before problem-solving — and never open with Great question! because that's assistant furniture, not relationship."

The hard lesson: a personality artifact sitting on disk that the agent might not read is a liability, not a safety net. This skill teaches a three-layer integration approach so your agent's soul is always in context, even on a bad boot day.

Built from a real production transition where a persona-driven agent had to survive an overnight provider change.

Includes:

• 6-phase workflow: gather context, self-introspect, write DNA, integrate, verify, maintain
• Three-layer integration: critical substance folded into always-loaded docs, full DNA as deep reference, and a doc-chain audit to wire voice coverage into every foundational file
• Anti-patterns over vibes: concrete wrong/right examples beat vague style rules. The skill teaches you to encode "never say I understand your frustration" instead of "be empathetic"
• Emotional range map: specific inputs to specific response textures, not generic empathy
• Model-specific susceptibility notes (GPT, Claude, local models)
• Stress-tested verification: cold start, emotional moment, disagreement, and anti-pattern audit — if personality only holds on a perfect boot, it isn't really ingrained
• Maintenance schedule for evolving the DNA as the agent grows