Comment by chickensong

I too am skeptical about the personas, but I still use them to organize context and instructions for different types of work. I use a top-level .agents dir, with commands, roles, and rules, sub-dirs.

CLAUDE.md is kept somewhat lean, with pointers to individual files in ./docs/ and .claude/commands is a symlink to .agents/commands.

After starting Claude, I use /commands to load a role and context, which pulls in only the necessary docs and avoids, say, loading UI design or test architecture docs, when adding a backend feature.

I don't want to have to do any of this, but it helps me try and keep the agents on the rails and minimize context rot.