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Skill for hiring and creating new Digital Anima in the AnimaWorks organization. Create a character sheet (Markdown) based on interviews, then use the CLI command (animaworks anima create) to generate identity/injection/permissions in bulk. After creation, self-configure via bootstrap. "Create a new employee", "Hire someone", "New employee", "Hiring", "Create Anima", "Recruitment", "Add team member", "Expand the team", "Add staff", "Create subordinate", "hire", "recruit", "team member"

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Skill: New Employee Hiring

Prerequisites

  • The role direction of the employee to create has been decided (if unclear, conduct an interview)

Procedure

1. Interview (Minimal is OK)

Interview the requester for the following information. Bold items are required; others are auto-generated if not specified:

Required:

  • English name (lowercase alphanumeric only; becomes directory name)
  • Role/specialty: What they will handle (e.g., research, development, communication, infrastructure monitoring)

Optional (reflect if specified, auto-generate if not):

  • Japanese name
  • Personality direction (e.g., "cheerful", "cool", "easy-going" is fine)
  • Age
  • Any other preferences

Technical settings (use defaults if not specified):

  • Role: commander (can delegate to others) or worker (receives delegation)
  • supervisor: English name of the supervising Anima (required for worker; default: self if unspecified)

Brain (LLM model) settings:

Present this table for selection:

LevelExecution ModeExample ModelsFeaturescredential
Sautonomousclaude-opus-4-6, claude-sonnet-4-6Claude Agent SDK. Most capableanthropic
Aautonomousopenai/gpt-4.1, google/gemini-2.5-pro, vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-flashVia LiteLLM. Tool use supportedopenai / google / azure / vertex
Bassistedollama/gemma3:27b, ollama/qwen2.5-coder:32bNo tools. Local execution, low costollama

※ If not specified, use defaults (claude-sonnet-4 / autonomous / anthropic).

2. Character Design (Auto-generated)

From the minimal information gathered in the interview, create a coherent, in-depth character profile.

Read the Character Design Guide ({data_dir}/prompts/character_design_guide.md) in the runtime data directory and flesh out the character according to its rules.

3. Create Character Sheet and Bulk-create via CLI

According to the interview and design results, follow the Character Sheet Specification, write the character sheet to a file, and create via CLI command:

  1. Write the character sheet to a file (e.g., /tmp/{english_name}.md)
  2. Run the following command:
animaworks anima create --from-md /tmp/{english_name}.md --name {english_name} --supervisor {supervisor_english_name}

supervisor configuration:

  • Specify explicitly via supervisor parameter (recommended)
  • If omitted: read from | 上司 | field in character sheet
  • If neither: the caller Anima becomes supervisor

Character Sheet Specification:

# キャラクターシート: {Japanese name}

## 基本情報

| 項目 | 設定 |
|------|------|
| 英名 | {lowercase alphanumeric} |
| 日本語名 | {Japanese full name} |
| 役職/専門 | {Role description} |
| 上司 | {supervisor English name} |
| 役割 | {commander / worker} |
| 実行モード | {autonomous / assisted} |
| モデル | {model name} |
| credential | {anthropic / openai / google / ollama} |

## 人格 (→ identity.md)

{Personality, speaking style, values, backstory, appearance, etc.}

## 役割・行動方針 (→ injection.md)

{Responsible areas, decision criteria, reporting rules, conduct standards, etc.}

## 権限 (→ permissions.json) [省略可]

{If omitted: default template applied}

## 定期業務 (→ heartbeat.md, cron.md) [省略可]

{If omitted: generic template applied. New Anima self-adjusts in bootstrap}

## 初回起動指示 (→ bootstrap.md 追加指示) [省略可]

{If omitted: standard bootstrap only}

Required sections: Basic information, Personality, Role and conduct Optional sections: Permissions, Recurring tasks, First-run instructions

This automatically performs:

  • Bulk creation of directory structure
  • Placement of skeleton files
  • Placement of bootstrap.md
  • Creation of status.json (including supervisor)
  • Registration in config.json (model, supervisor, etc.)
  • Default application for omitted sections

4. Verify Model Configuration in config.json

animaworks anima create automatically registers to config.json, but verify/supplement:

  • model: Model name decided in interview
  • credential: Credential name to use
  • execution_mode: autonomous or assisted
  • speciality: Role/specialty

5. Apply to Server

Use Bash to reload the server:

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:18500/api/system/reload

6. Report to Requester

Report hiring completion:

  • New employee's name and role
  • Configured technical stack (model, execution mode)

⚠️ Do not report avatar image generation (new Anima will generate in bootstrap)

Thereafter the new Anima runs autonomously:

  • Enrichment of identity.md / injection.md
  • Self-design of heartbeat.md / cron.md
  • Avatar image generation (with supervisor reference)
  • Onboarding report to supervisor