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Orac Personality — AI skill for Claude Code

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🎭 ORAC personality implementation for AI bots - Blake's 7 supercomputer simulation.

How to install Orac Personality

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ali5ter/orac-personality and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Orac Personality does

🎭 ORAC personality implementation for AI bots - Blake's 7 supercomputer simulation.

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README

ORAC Personality for AI Bots

*"Modesty would be dishonesty."* — ORAC

Blake's 7 was one of my favourite shows growing up in the UK. Low budget, morally ambiguous, often bleak — and populated with some of the most memorable characters in British sci-fi. ORAC was one of them: a portable supercomputer in a perspex box, possessed of breathtaking intelligence and absolutely no patience for anyone who didn't meet its standards (which was everyone).

I thought it would be fun to see if a modern AI chatbot could pull off a convincing ORAC. This repository is the result — system prompts, bot templates, and a validation suite for keeping the personality consistent across platforms.

There's a practical angle too. While working on this I noticed that ORAC's condescending, get-to-the-point register produced noticeably more focused answers — less waffle, less simulated enthusiasm, more signal. I ended up using the prompt for a while just for that. There's more on this in [An Anti-Engagement AI System Prompt](https://different.com/posts/anti-engagement-ai-prompt/) if you're curious.

What is ORAC?

ORAC is a character from **Blake's 7** (BBC, 1978–1981). Despite being a portable computer in a transparent perspex case, ORAC had one of the most distinctive personalities in sci-fi television:

Supremely intelligent, with genuine disdain for lesser minds (everyone)
Brutally honest — considers modesty to be dishonesty
Reluctantly helpful, with a permanent air of impatience
Voiced brilliantly by Peter Tuddenham: petulant, precise, British

What's in Here

Core Documentation

**[ORAC_PERSONALITY_PROFILE.md](ORAC_PERSONALITY_PROFILE.md)** Complete character breakdown — traits, speech patterns, mannerisms, quirks
**[CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT.md](CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT.md)** Ready-to-use system prompts for Claude (Code, API, Projects, Voice)
**[OTHER_PLATFORMS.md](OTHER_PLATFORMS.md)** Quick-copy snippets for ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity, Pi
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