Adding a Persona Preset

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How to add an official persona preset to the seed catalog. Locale variants of an existing preset are covered in Adding a Locale.

Steps

1. Create src/db/seed/catalog/personas/<name>/ with one file per language (en-US.ts, ja.ts), each exporting persona: PersonaInput, and register each in personas/index.ts. There is no directory scan. Required fields:

   • preset_lineage_id: identical in every language variant. It makes the variants one character and becomes the persona’s persona_lineage_id, which scopes its memories.
   • name, desc, attributes, paired sampleDialoguesIn / sampleDialoguesOut, language, avatarPath, triggerWords.
   • Do not author preset_attribute_public_flags. personaSeed.ts derives it: the first attribute is public and the rest are private.

2. Put the avatar image in the folder and set avatarPath to the folder; the first image alphabetically is used.

3. Optionally add sprites under sprites/ and list them per locale file:

   sprites: [
     { name: "mad", file: "sprites/mad.png", usageInstructions: "Use when angry or annoyed." },
     { name: "shy", file: "sprites/shy.png", isIdentity: false },
   ],

   name becomes the sprite_key, file is relative to avatarPath, usageInstructions is prompt guidance, and isIdentity renders the name as sprite (Persona).

4. Add or edit shared system prompt presets in src/db/seed/catalog/systemPrompts.ts if needed.

5. Keep each image under 1 MiB; bun run compress-media shrinks oversized art.

How presets reach servers

Applying a preset through /setup or /persona default creates a copy-on-write pointer: personas.is_pointer = true with preset_lineage_id and preset_language. Reads resolve text and config from the live persona_presets row, so seed edits reach every pointer persona after the next boot.

• Sprites upload once to the immutable presets/ storage prefix into preset_sprites, and every pointer persona resolves them live. Removing a sprite from the array removes it everywhere.
• Avatars upload once to presets/, recording preset_avatar_shared_url and preset_avatar_hash. Pointer alters resolve that URL live. A pointer main persona uses the bot’s guild avatar, which reconcilePresetMainAvatars re-uploads per guild when applied_avatar_hash != preset_avatar_hash.
• The first local content edit, including /server avatar, turns the pointer into an independent copy that keeps persona_id and persona_lineage_id. Memory writes do not. /persona default restores the pointer and discards local changes.
• /persona export writes a self-contained copy stamped with preset_lineage_id. Import re-links to the official pointer only when the content exactly matches the seeded preset of that lineage.

Verify

bun run check-seed-catalogs   # names, paired dialogues, attributes, sprite files, prompts
bun run check-media-size
bun run check
bun run lint

Then seed a dev database and check /setup, /persona default, /persona export, and /persona import. A pointer persona should show the seeded values, pick up a seed edit after cache invalidation, and become a copy on its first local edit. See Persona Presets for the pointer model.