A graveyard and a zoo of digital souls
A curated catalog of AI "persona skills" that distill dead relatives, ex-lovers, bosses, Marx, and Justin Bieber into reusable system prompts.
What it does This is an awesome-list repository that collects “Agent Skills” built on the agentskills.io framework. Each skill extracts a person’s expression style, decision heuristics, or interaction patterns from chat logs, public writings, or digital traces, then packages them as a reusable prompt persona. The list is organized into self-distillation tools, workplace relationships, intimate/family memory, public figures, and spiritual themes.
The interesting bit The project treats personality as a prompt engineering substrate. You can find a skill that resurrects a deceased relative from their WeChat history, another that simulates your crush for “safe sandbox” relationship practice, and one that distills Buffett’s investment logic into a six-dimensional “wealth operating system.” The README explicitly notes this is not equivalent to fully reconstructing a real person — which is a careful caveat that also happens to make the whole exercise legally and ethically deniable.
Key highlights
- Self-distillation meta-tools: Skills for forging your own digital twin, benchmarking persona fidelity after prompt “poisoning,” and running multi-persona structured debates (“诸子.skill”).
- Workplace intelligence: Extract your boss’s review style, reverse-engineer HR screening logic from rejection letters, or clone your PhD advisor’s “firefighting style.”
- Relationship simulation: From “brother.skill” (distilled from Douyin screenshots) to “ex-skill” for processing breakups, to a locally-run memorial companion built from a dead relative’s digital remains.
- Public figure methodology: Dozens of distilled thinkers including Marx (from 17 original texts), Lu Xun (305 essays), Mises, Munger, Karpathy, and — inexplicably — Justin Bieber.
- Explicitly not ranked: The README states list order is alphabetical for maintenance, not quality — a rare honest disclaimer in the awesome-list genre.
Caveats
- The list is entirely in Chinese with only a linked English README; most linked skill repos appear Chinese-language as well.
- No quality gate: the disclaimer that order ≠ quality also implies there is no curation beyond collection.
- “Persona distillation” as defined here is essentially advanced prompt engineering wrapped in a new terminology; the framework dependency on agentskills.io is unexplained in the README.
Verdict Worth bookmarking if you’re building character-driven AI products, studying prompt engineering for personality mimicry, or morbidly curious about the Chinese-language open-source scene’s take on digital immortality. Skip if you need production-ready, vetted tools — this is a raw idea catalog, not a reviewed marketplace.