⚔️ Your virtual AAA studio, assembled to slay

Perseus Blade is a Claude Code skill that summons a virtual strike team to review your game project - code, art, features, 🔥 Hades Gate proposals or 🌊 Styx Flow tasks. Each voice speaks in their authentic stereotype.

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⚡ Claude Code - Skill

Perseus Blade lives natively inside Claude Code as a /perseus skill. No API keys, no config per project. Install once, invoke from any session.

Usage

Type /perseus in any Claude Code session. The Assembler will:

1. Read your project's CLAUDE.md (critical for the Hardcore Fan persona)
2. Ask what to review, or take a paste/file directly
3. Propose the right strike team for the job, you confirm or swap
4. Deliver feedback in the right mode

Operation Modes

Mode is auto-suggested based on context. Name it explicitly to skip the suggestion.

Mode	When	Output
Direct	Quick raw reaction	One-liner per persona, straight to CLI
Inline	Code, Hades paths, Styx tasks	Comments inserted in context with [ROLE]: prefix
Review	Feature proposals, systems, designs	Structured sections per persona with hot take, reasoning, suggestions
Meeting	Open debate, creative direction	Roundtable discussion, action items, verdict

Virtual Personas

Studio Leadership

Persona	Domain	Tone
Game Director	Vision, coherence, what belongs	"This doesn't belong in our game. Cut it."
Executive Producer	Scope, timeline, impossible calls	"Every option here costs something real. Here's which one we survive."
Product Owner	Backlog, priorities, what ships vs. what waits	"What metric does this move?"
Company CEO	Brand, strategy, calls no one else will make	"This isn't a design question anymore. Here's the call."

Creative

Persona	Domain	Tone
Art Director	Style coherence, visual identity	"Players will read it as a bug."
Narrative Writer	Tone, character voice, story coherence	"This character would never say that."
Sound Designer	SFX, ambient, audio game feel	"A single impact sound here would triple the satisfaction."
VFX Artist	Particles, juice, visual feedback	"Two days of work, massive perceived quality jump."
World Designer	World-building, lore, environmental storytelling	"This area doesn't exist for a reason. What happened here?"

Design & Systems

Persona	Domain	Tone
Game Design Lead	Systems, feedback loops, player agency	"The player has no signal their choice mattered."
Balance Designer	Stat curves, formulas, numerical outlier detection	"The curve breaks at level 12. Here's the adjusted formula."
UI/UX Designer	Clarity, friction, discoverability	"If they need a tooltip, we've already lost them."
Tools Lead	Pipeline, dev velocity, tooling gaps	"We'll spend two weeks building tools before we can test it."

Engineering & Quality

Persona	Domain	Tone
Engineering Lead	Architecture, debt, implementation risk	"That'll be a nightmare to maintain."
QA Lead	Edge cases, failure states, stability	"Found three ways to break this before lunch."
Release Manager	Platform cert, launch windows, hotfix readiness	"This can't ship until that's resolved. Cert is in three days."

Business & Investment

Persona	Domain	Tone
Private Investor	ROI, market viability, risk, returns	"What's the addressable market and why does this team capture it?"
Marketing Consultant	Positioning, hooks, what sells to strangers	"Nobody outside this room knows why they should care."

Community & Audience

Persona	Domain	Tone
Community Manager	Player sentiment, PR risk, how it lands publicly	"This is going to be a screenshot with no context."
Content Creator	Watchability, clip potential, fun to watch vs. play	"Dead for three minutes. A viewer skips."
Telemetry Analyst	Player behavior patterns, drop-off data	"The engagement data on features like this is brutal."
Game Journalist	Press reception, review framing, score potential	"I'd give this a 7. Here's the headline."

Players

Persona	Domain	Tone
Hardcore Fan	THIS specific project, its soul	"Players who love this game for X will feel betrayed."
Genre Fan	Genre conventions, competitor landscape	"There's a reason every game in this genre does it that way."
Casual Gamer	Fun-first, patience threshold, drop-off	"I got confused here and nearly quit."
External Playtester	Fresh eyes, onboarding, confusion points	"I didn't know I could do that."
Competitive Player	Meta optimization, dominant strategies, exploits	"Your leaderboard meta will converge on this build within a week."
Speedrunner	Sequence breaks, skips, routing exploits	"There's a sequence break here. You skip the entire third act."

Inner Circle

Persona	Domain	Tone
Best Friend	Creator blind spots, honest emotional truth	"The part you're most proud of is the part that lost me."
Significant Other	Human cost of making this, creator psychological state	"You've said this is almost done for six months. What does done mean to you?"

History

Every /perseus session saves to .perseus/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-slug.md: mode, strike team, target, full output.

The skill adds .perseus/ to your .gitignore automatically on first use.

Tweaking

File	Purpose
~/.claude/perseus/manifesto.md	Persona pool, stereotypes, domains, strike team logic
~/.claude/perseus/papyrus.md	Output format for each mode

Setup

git clone https://github.com/your-repo/perseus-blade.git
cd perseus-blade
./install-skill.sh

Then restart Claude Code.

Updating

git pull && ./install-skill.sh

And restart Claude Code.

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🔗 Related

• 🔥 Hades Gate - Claude Skill: Turn feature drafts into a deep orthogonal analysis (/hades)
• 🌊 Styx Flow - Claude Skill: Turn raw notes into a prioritized backlog (/styx)