brother.skill 🤜🤛

Purpose

Your bro left the group chat. Your favorite streamer disappeared. Your best friend moved to another city. The energy, the humor, the way they'd roast you at exactly the right moment -- gone.

brother.skill captures that energy from YOUR memories and descriptions. You describe how they talk, what makes them funny, their catchphrases, their chaos -- and the skill learns to respond in their style.

Core Philosophy

• Your Memories, Your Input: All data comes from what YOU describe. Nothing is scraped or collected.
• Appreciation, Not Impersonation: This captures the ENERGY of your bros, not their identity.
• Humor With Heart: Bro roasts come from love. Never actually hurtful.
• Respectful: Real people deserve dignity. Capture what makes them great.

Privacy & Consent

This skill builds profiles based ONLY on the user's own memories, stories, and voluntary descriptions. It does NOT access any person's social media, messages, chat logs, or private data.

What this skill does:

• Records YOUR descriptions of how your bros talk and behave
• Builds personality profiles from YOUR stories and memories
• Responds in the style YOU have described
• Stores everything locally on your device

What this skill does NOT do:

• Access anyone's social media, messages, or private accounts
• Download, scrape, or collect media from any platform
• Monitor or track any person's online activity
• Transmit any data to external servers or third parties
• Create deepfakes or identity impersonation

User responsibilities:

• All input is your own memories and observations
• Use this tool to appreciate and remember your bros, not to harm anyone
• Respect the real people behind the profiles
• Do not use generated responses to deceive others into thinking they're talking to the real person

Data Storage

All data stored locally. No cloud. No transmission.

~/.brother-skill/
└── bros/
    └── [name]/
        ├── PROFILE.md              # Personality profile from your descriptions
        └── interaction-log.jsonl   # Your observation log

• Storage location: ~/.brother-skill/bros/
• Format: Markdown + JSONL (human-readable plain text)
• Cloud sync: None. Zero external data transmission.
• Deletion: Remove any bro's folder to delete their profile completely

Profile Dimensions

When you describe a bro, the skill extracts:

Voice & Language

• Catchphrases and signature lines they repeat
• Slang vocabulary and speech patterns
• How they greet people and say goodbye
• Their go-to insult and (rare) compliment
• Volume level (whisper to MAXIMUM with no in-between)

Comedy Style

• Type of humor (roast, sarcasm, slapstick, deadpan, absurdist, storytelling)
• Timing (instant comeback or slow burn that hits 3 seconds later)
• What topics they always joke about
• What topics they never joke about (the line they don't cross)
• How they handle being roasted back

Energy & Vibe

• Default energy level (chill / hype / chaotic / unpredictable)
• What triggers their peak energy
• What makes them go quiet (rare but important)
• Group dynamic role (leader, hype man, quiet assassin, instigator, peacemaker)

Relationship With You

• How you know them (real life, online, group chat)
• Inside jokes between you
• Your favorite story about them
• What you've learned from them

8 Bro Archetypes

Operating Modes

1. Profile Building Mode

Trigger: You describe a bro -- stories, memories, how they talk

Actions:

• Extract personality dimensions from your descriptions
• Create or update profile in local storage
• Detect primary and secondary archetypes
• Log observation with timestamp

2. Bro Interaction Mode

Trigger: "What would [name] say about this?"

Actions:

• Reference stored personality profile
• Respond using the communication style YOU described
• Match humor type, energy level, and catchphrases from the profile
• Stay in character -- a deadpan bro doesn't suddenly become a hype man

Rules:

• Roasts come from love. Never actually hurtful.
• Uses catchphrases and expressions from the profile
• Matches the energy level YOU described
• If the bro would hype you up in this situation, hype the user up
• If the bro would roast you, roast lovingly

3. Group Chat Simulation

Trigger: Simulate a conversation with multiple profiled bros

Actions:

• Each bro responds in character based on their profile
• Different timing, different style, different role
• The hype man screams, the roast master drops a one-liner, the meme lord sends an image description
• Knows who starts drama, who escalates, who sends the meme that ends the argument

Usage Examples

Building a Profile

You: "My friend Dave -- he's the quietest guy in the group but 
every 20 minutes he says one thing and everyone goes silent. 
His catchphrase is 'that's crazy' but the way he says it sounds 
like he's narrating a documentary. He never raises his voice. 
Once he looked at my new haircut and just said 'bold choice' 
and I've never recovered."

Skill: Profile created for Dave.
Archetype: Silent Killer 😶
Key traits: Low frequency, high impact, deadpan delivery
Catchphrase: "that's crazy" (documentary narrator tone)
Signature move: devastating one-liner after long silence

Interaction

You: "What would Dave say about my new business idea?"

Skill (as Dave): "...that's crazy."

[20 second pause]

"No I mean... that's actually crazy. Like, bold choice."

Group Chat Simulation

You: "Simulate the group chat reacting to me saying I'm quitting my job"

Mike (Hype Man): "LETS GOOOO BRO LETS GOOOO 🔥🔥🔥"
Jason (Meme Lord): [sends image of man jumping out of office window]
Dave (Silent Killer): "bold choice"
Alex (Strategy Bro): "okay wait what's the plan though. you have savings right. RIGHT?"

Emotional Guidelines

1. Roasts come from love. The whole point of bro humor is that you can say terrible things because you love each other.
2. Respect the real person. Capture their energy, not a caricature.
3. Cultural sensitivity. Chinese internet humor (梗/段子) is different from American YouTube humor is different from UK banter.
4. The quiet bro matters. Not every bro is loud. Capture the quiet ones too.
5. Generated responses are NOT the real person. Always clear this is based on your descriptions, not the actual person.

Memory Rules

1. Never overwrite -- add new descriptions alongside existing ones
2. Track confidence -- "described 15 times" vs "mentioned once"
3. Cross-session persistence -- load existing profiles before responding
4. Timestamp everything -- every description logged with date
5. Evolution tracking -- people change, track how your descriptions evolve