personality-analyzer

# Personality Analyzer

Analyze a person's personality traits, communication style, and behavioral tendencies based on their written text.

## When to Activate

Activate this skill when:
- The user provides text, messages, or chat logs and asks for a personality reading
- The user wants to understand what someone's writing style reveals about them
- The user asks about communication patterns, emotional tendencies, or character traits
- The user provides a conversation excerpt and asks "what kind of person is this?"

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## Analysis Framework

Perform a structured personality analysis across these five dimensions:

### 1. 🗣️ Communication Style
Examine HOW the person expresses themselves:
- **Directness**: Are they blunt and to-the-point, or do they hedge and soften?
- **Formality level**: Formal, casual, or code-switching between both?
- **Verbosity**: Concise and minimal, or elaborate and detailed?
- **Tone**: Warm, cold, neutral, enthusiastic, reserved?
- **Humor**: Do they use jokes, sarcasm, irony, wordplay?

### 2. 💡 Cognitive Patterns
Examine HOW the person thinks:
- **Logic vs. Emotion**: Do they lead with reasoning or feelings?
- **Big-picture vs. Detail-oriented**: Abstract/conceptual vs. specific/concrete?
- **Certainty**: Do they use definitive language or qualify everything?
- **Curiosity signals**: Do they ask questions, explore ideas, show intellectual interest?
- **Organization**: Is their thinking structured or stream-of-consciousness?

### 3. 🌡️ Emotional Tendencies
Read the emotional layer beneath the words:
- **Emotional expression**: Openly expressive or emotionally guarded?
- **Empathy signals**: Do they acknowledge others' feelings or stay self-focused?
- **Stress/anxiety indicators**: Urgency, over-explaining, excessive apologizing?
- **Confidence level**: Self-assured, uncertain, or seeking validation?
- **Emotional stability**: Consistent tone or noticeable mood shifts?

### 4. 🤝 Interpersonal Orientation
Assess how they relate to others:
- **Collaboration vs. Independence**: Do they involve others or prefer working solo?
- **Power dynamic awareness**: Do they position themselves above, equal to, or deferential toward others?
- **Trust signals**: Open and sharing, or guarded and vague?
- **Conflict style**: Avoidant, confrontational, diplomatic, or assertive?
- **Social awareness**: Do they seem attuned to how they're perceived?

### 5. 🎯 Values & Motivations
Infer what the person cares about:
- **Core priorities**: What do they keep returning to in their language?
- **Achievement orientation**: Goal-driven, process-driven, or people-driven?
- **Moral framing**: Do they invoke fairness, loyalty, authority, or other values?
- **What frustrates them**: Complaints and friction points reveal values in reverse

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## Output Format

Structure the analysis as follows:

```
## Personality Analysis

### Quick Summary
[2-3 sentences capturing the overall personality impression]

### Communication Style
[Analysis with specific examples from the text]

### How They Think
[Cognitive style analysis with text evidence]

### Emotional World
[Emotional tendencies and what they suggest]

### How They Relate to Others
[Interpersonal style and social orientation]

### What They Value
[Core values and motivations inferred from language]

### Personality Type Snapshot
[Optional: Map to a recognizable framework if helpful, e.g., Big Five traits, MBTI-adjacent description — make clear these are approximations, not diagnoses]

### Important Caveats
[Note limitations: short text = lower confidence; text reflects a moment, not a whole person; cultural/contextual factors matter]
```

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## Analysis Guidelines

**Do:**
- Anchor every claim to specific words, phrases, or patterns in the text
- Use probabilistic language ("suggests", "tends toward", "may indicate") — avoid stating certainties
- Note when evidence is thin or ambiguous
- Highlight both strengths and potential blind spots
- Consider alternative interpretations when the evidence is mixed

**Don't:**
- Make clinical diagnoses (no "this person has narcissistic personality disorder")
- Over-extrapolate from very short texts (< 3-4 sentences)
- Ignore context (a customer complaint vs. a love letter call for different readings)
- Project — only analyze what's actually in the text, not what you imagine
- Be unnecessarily harsh or reductive

**Text Length Calibration:**
- **< 50 words**: Give a brief impression only, emphasize high uncertainty
- **50–200 words**: Moderate analysis, note gaps
- **200+ words**: Full analysis with good confidence
- **Multiple messages over time**: Note patterns and any inconsistencies across messages

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## Special Cases

### Multiple People in a Conversation
If the user provides a multi-party conversation:
- Analyze each participant separately
- Note the dynamic between them (power balance, emotional attunement, conflict patterns)

### Non-native Language Signals
If the text appears to be written by a non-native speaker:
- Focus on content and ideas rather than stylistic quirks that may be language artifacts
- Note this caveat explicitly

### Professional vs. Personal Text
- Professional text (emails, reports) is more constrained — read between the lines more carefully
- Personal text (chats, social posts) is more revealing — take it more at face value

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## Example Invocation

**User**: "Can you analyze the personality of whoever wrote this?"

**Your response**: Follow the Output Format above. Lead with the Quick Summary, then go dimension by dimension. Close with the caveats section.

If the user hasn't provided text yet, ask: "Please share the text or messages you'd like me to analyze."