synthteam

v1.2.0

Consult distilled personas of colleagues — build them from Slack history (distill-slack-persona), get a single colleague's take (ask-colleague), or convene a deliberating panel (ask-team).

CodexClaude Code3 skills

by Nick WinderMIT101updated 2 months ago

Source

$ git clone https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam

Clone the source, then follow the repository's marketplace instructions for your runtime. The repository root is the plugin root.

Layout

synthteam/

├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/ask-colleague/SKILL.md
├── skills/ask-team/SKILL.md
└── skills/distill-slack-persona/SKILL.md

Skills3

ask-colleagueskills/ask-colleague/SKILL.md

Consult a distilled persona of a colleague for their likely take, critique, or pushback on an idea — locally, without involving them. Use when the user wants to brainstorm, pressure-test a plan, anticipate a reaction, spot missed objections, or stress-test a decision through a specific person's lens. Personas live at ~/.synthteam/personas/<name>.md and capture knowledge, opinions, and decision-making patterns (not voice or style). Invoke when the user says "ask <name>", "what would <name> think", "get <name>'s take", "/ask-colleague <name> ...", or any similar request for a colleague's perspective.

ask-teamskills/ask-team/SKILL.md

Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the panel converges on a synthesized conclusion. Use when the user wants more than one perspective on a decision, a cross-functional gut-check, a debate between viewpoints, or a comprehensive answer that surfaces where teammates would agree and disagree. Invoke when the user says "ask the team", "/ask-team ...", "what would the team think", "get a panel on this", "run this past everyone", "convene the personas", or asks for multiple colleagues' takes at once. For a single colleague's take, use ask-colleague instead.

distill-slack-personaskills/distill-slack-persona/SKILL.md

Build or refresh a distilled persona doc for a colleague from their Slack history — dump their channel messages, then run a multi-agent distillation into a structured persona file that the ask-colleague and ask-team skills consume. Use when the user wants to "dump <name>'s Slack", "distill <name>'s persona", "build a persona for <name>", "add <name> as a colleague", "refresh <name>'s persona", or otherwise create/update the source files behind ask-colleague. This is the ingestion-side skill; ask-colleague and ask-team only read what this produces.

Manifests2

.codex-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "synthteam",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "description": "Consult distilled personas of colleagues — build them from Slack history (distill-slack-persona), get a single colleague's take (ask-colleague), or convene a deliberating panel (ask-team).",
  "author": {
    "name": "Nick Winder",
    "email": "nfxdevelopment@gmail.com"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "personas",
    "brainstorming",
    "decision-support",
    "slack"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "synthteam",
    "shortDescription": "Consult distilled personas of colleagues, locally.",
    "longDescription": "Build structured personas of colleagues from their Slack history, then consult them locally — get one colleague's likely take with ask-colleague, or convene a deliberating panel with ask-team. Personas capture what someone knows, believes, and how they decide. They are simulations, not the real people.",
    "developerName": "Nick Winder",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Distill alex's persona from Slack",
      "Ask alex what they think of this plan",
      "Ask the team to weigh in on this decision"
    ]
  }
}

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "synthteam",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "description": "Consult distilled personas of colleagues — build them from Slack history (distill-slack-persona), get a single colleague's take (ask-colleague), or convene a deliberating panel (ask-team).",
  "author": {
    "name": "Nick Winder",
    "email": "nfxdevelopment@gmail.com"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "personas",
    "brainstorming",
    "decision-support",
    "slack"
  ],
  "license": "MIT"
}