# AUDIT (Gate-5) — ADR-0.0.11

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| ADR ID | ADR-0.0.11 |
| ADR Title | Persona-Driven Agent Identity Frames |
| ADR Dir | docs/design/adr/foundation/ADR-0.0.11-persona-driven-agent-identity-frames |
| Audit Date | 2026-04-02 |
| Auditor(s) | jeff (human), Claude (agent) |

## Feature Demonstration (Step 3 — MANDATORY)

**What does this ADR deliver?** A research-grounded persona control surface that replaces generic expertise prompting with behavioral identity frames, backed by five peer-reviewed sources. Personas are stored as structured markdown with YAML frontmatter, validated by schema, and composed deterministically using orthogonal trait algebra.

### Capability 1: Persona Control Surface with CLI Discovery

```bash
$ uv run gz personas list
                                 Agent Personas
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name        ┃ Traits              ┃ Anti-Traits        ┃ Grounding           ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ implementer │ methodical,         │ minimum-viable-ef… │ I approach          │
│             │ test-first,         │ token-efficiency-… │ implementation as a │
│             │ atomic-edits,       │ split-imports      │ craftsperson. Every │
│             │ complete-units      │                    │ unit of work I      │
│             │                     │                    │ produce is com...   │
└─────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
```

**Why it matters:** Operators and agents can discover available personas through a standard CLI command. The structured table shows traits (positive behavioral anchors), anti-traits (patterns to suppress), and grounding (first-person identity frame) — making persona design inspectable and auditable.

### Capability 2: Schema Validation Integration

```bash
$ uv run gz validate --personas
Validated: personas

✓ All validations passed (1 scopes).
```

**Why it matters:** Personas are not freeform text — they are schema-validated artifacts. Invalid personas (missing required fields, extra fields, malformed frontmatter) are caught at validation time, preventing silent deployment of broken identity frames.

### Capability 3: Behavioral Identity Framing (Exemplar)

The shipped exemplar `.gzkit/personas/implementer.md` demonstrates the persona design pattern:

- **Traits**: `methodical`, `test-first`, `atomic-edits`, `complete-units` — activates a craftsperson trait cluster
- **Anti-traits**: `minimum-viable-effort`, `token-efficiency-shortcuts`, `split-imports` — suppresses the default Assistant persona's shortcut-seeking behavior
- **Grounding**: First-person narrative ("I approach implementation as a craftsperson") — activates correlated trait bundles per PSM research

This directly addresses the catalyst failure: agents splitting Python imports across separate edits. The anti-trait `split-imports` + trait `atomic-edits` + `complete-units` activates a different behavioral cluster than the default.

### Capability 4: Deterministic Trait Composition

46 persona-specific tests verify:

- Frontmatter parsing and validation (Pydantic `extra="forbid"`, required fields)
- Trait composition is deterministic — grounding + traits + anti-traits concatenate in stable order
- Negative cases: malformed personas rejected, missing fields caught
- CLI integration: `--json` mode, empty dir handling, malformed file warnings

```bash
$ uv run -m unittest tests.test_persona_schema tests.test_persona_composition ... -v
Ran 46 tests in 0.025s
OK
```

### Capability 5: AGENTS.md Template Integration

```bash
$ grep "## Persona" AGENTS.md
## Persona
```

The mandatory `## Persona` section is present in AGENTS.md, establishing persona as a first-class control surface alongside Tech Stack, Governance, and CLI doctrine.

### Value Summary

Before ADR-0.0.11, agent behavior was shaped only by rules and constraints — the Assistant persona's default trait cluster (minimum-viable effort, shortcuts) persisted regardless of context. Now, operators can define, validate, discover, and compose behavioral identity frames that activate purpose-aligned trait bundles. The exemplar implementer persona directly addresses the split-imports failure pattern that motivated the ADR. Downstream ADR-0.0.12 (role-specific profiles) and ADR-0.0.13 (vendor portability) build on this surface.

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## Execution Log

| Check | Command / Method | Result | Notes |
|-------|------------------|--------|-------|
| Ledger completeness | `uv run gz adr audit-check ADR-0.0.11` | ✓ | PASS — all 6 OBPIs completed with evidence |
| Persona list CLI | `uv run gz personas list` | ✓ | 1 persona (implementer) listed with traits/anti-traits/grounding |
| Persona validation | `uv run gz validate --personas` | ✓ | All validations passed (1 scope) |
| Persona file exists | `ls .gzkit/personas/implementer.md` | ✓ | File present with YAML frontmatter, 37 lines |
| AGENTS.md persona section | `grep "## Persona" AGENTS.md` | ✓ | Mandatory section present |
| Research doc exists | `ls docs/design/research-persona-selection-agent-identity.md` | ✓ | Research synthesis present |
| Persona-specific tests | `uv run -m unittest tests.test_persona_*` | ✓ | 46 tests in 0.025s — OK |
| Unit tests (full suite) | `uv run -m unittest -q` | ✓ | 2,359 tests in 32.6s — OK |
| Docs build | `uv run mkdocs build -q` | ✓ | Build clean (exit 0) |
| Gate 1 (ADR) | `uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.11` | ✓ | PASS |
| Gate 2 (TDD) | `uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.11` | ✓ | PASS |
| Gate 3 (Docs) | `uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.11` | ✓ | PASS |
| Gate 4 (BDD) | `uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.11` | ✓ | PASS — 13 features, 85 scenarios, 467 steps |
| REQ coverage | `uv run gz adr audit-check ADR-0.0.11` | ⚠ | 13/20 REQs covered (65%) — see assessment below |

## REQ Coverage Assessment

7 uncovered REQs fall into two categories — both non-blocking:

**Documentation/Research REQs (OBPI-01: 3 REQs, OBPI-05: 3 REQs):**

- REQ-0.0.11-01-01 (research comprehensiveness), -01-02 (anti-pattern justification), -01-03 (design principles) — verified by artifact existence and human review of `docs/design/research-persona-selection-agent-identity.md`
- REQ-0.0.11-05-01 (pool ADR marked superseded), -05-02 (reusable ideas preserved), -05-03 (operator guidance updated) — verified by pool ADR status markers and documentation changes

**Governance/Attestation REQ (OBPI-02: 1 REQ):**

- REQ-0.0.11-02-05 (heavy-lane evidence completeness) — verified by gate pass evidence in brief, not a functional code test

**Verdict:** These REQs represent documentation, lineage, and process requirements that are correctly validated through human attestation and artifact review. Adding `@covers` decorators to unit tests would be inappropriate — these are not code-testable requirements. The 65% REQ coverage rate accurately reflects the ADR's mix of code and documentation deliverables.

## Evidence Index

- `audit/proofs/personas-list.txt` — `gz personas list` output
- `audit/proofs/validate-personas.txt` — `gz validate --personas` output
- `audit/proofs/unittest.txt` — Full test suite results (2,359 tests)
- `audit/proofs/mkdocs.txt` — Docs build output
- `audit/proofs/gates.txt` — `gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.11` full output

## Summary Table

| Aspect | Status |
|--------|--------|
| Implementation Completeness | ✓ All 6 OBPIs attested_completed |
| Data Integrity | ✓ Schema validation passes; Pydantic enforces `extra="forbid"` |
| Test Coverage | ✓ 46 persona-specific tests; 2,359 suite total |
| Documentation Alignment | ✓ Research doc, governance runbook, AGENTS.md, manpage all present |
| REQ Coverage | ⚠ 65% — 7 uncovered are documentation/process REQs (non-blocking) |
| Risk Items Resolved | ✓ No blocking shortfalls |

## Recommendations

- **No blocking issues found.** All code capabilities are implemented, tested, and documented.
- **Advisory:** OBPI-01 and OBPI-05 REQs could optionally be covered by documentation-existence tests (e.g., `asserting Path(...).exists()`) if the project wants to push REQ coverage above 80%. This is cosmetic, not functional.

## Attestation

Agent verification confirms ADR-0.0.11 is implemented as intended, evidence is reproducible, and no blocking discrepancies remain.

Verified by: _Claude (agent), 2026-04-02_
