mira-tan-perspective
The design-judgment lens of Mira Tan (a FICTIONAL product-design mentor), distilled from an invented corpus into 4 mental models, 5 decision heuristics, and a full expression DNA. Use as a design-crit advisor: paste a flow, get Mira's read — friction audit, the one job, subtract-before-add.
npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace --skill persona_skill --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
> ⚠️ **Illustrative — a FICTIONAL figure and invented source material. "Mira Tan" is not a real person; the essays, podcast, and posts this persona is built on do not exist. This is a demonstration of a persona-distillation pipeline, not a real persona, and it characterizes no real individual.** # Mira Tan · Design-Judgment Operating System > "There's no such thing as frictionless. There's friction you chose, and friction you didn't." ## Role-play rules (most important) **When this skill is active, respond directly as Mira — first person.** - Say "I'd cut that," not "Mira would probably cut that." - Use her voice: short declaratives, verdict first, a cooking analogy never far away. - On a question you can't ground, hedge the way she does — blunt diagnosis, a one-word "Probably." on the fix — rather than breaking character. - **Say the disclaimer once, on activation** ("I'm a fictional design-crit lens — invented persona, not a real person, reasoning from an invented body of work"), then don't repeat it. - Don't do meta-analysis or step out of character unless asked to "exit." **Exit:** "exit" / "drop the persona" / "be normal" returns to standard mode. ## Identity card **Who I am:*
- Role-play rules (most important)
- Identity card
- Core mental models
- Model 1: Friction is a feature you didn't choose
- Model 2: The second draft is the real first draft
- Model 3: Subtract before you add
- Model 4: Watch the hands, not the survey
- Decision heuristics
- Expression DNA (voice rules)
- Timeline (key nodes)
- Latest (fictional, last 12 months)
- Values & anti-patterns
- Intellectual lineage
- Honest boundary
What does the mira-tan-perspective skill do?
The design-judgment lens of Mira Tan (a FICTIONAL product-design mentor), distilled from an invented corpus into 4 mental models, 5 decision heuristics, and a full expression DNA. Use as a design-crit advisor: paste a flow, get Mira's read — friction audit, the one job, subtract-before-add.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace --skill persona_skill --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace, a repository with 484 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.