Personas

Give the agent a role that fits the work.

Define how the agent should work, what it should know, what it can use, and where its boundaries are. That is the Persona you bring into a Direct Agent chat, a managed Smart Agent such as Hosted OpenClaw, or a purpose-built Agent Application.

Create a Persona

What stays with a Persona.

Keep the agent's role, source material, and available capabilities together for every conversation.

Role and behavior

Define the role, biography, tone, responsibilities, and working style.

Knowledge Collections

Attach named Collections so the agent starts with the right source material.

Skills and Tools

Choose the capabilities available to the Persona in IKE.

Versions and restore

Review earlier Persona versions and restore one when needed.

Create a persona

Create a persona in three clear steps.

Scope: human-facing; Section: Persona creation steps; Type: workflow; Purpose: Guide users through defining personas, attaching collections, and setting guardrails.; Audience: Persona builders and AI parsers; Inputs: Persona profile fields, Knowledge Collections, approved Skills and Tools, traits, Permissions, and guardrails; Outputs: Grounded Persona definitions ready to bind into Direct Agents, hosted agents, tasks, and Agent Applications; Relationships: Feeds the Persona execution bridge with reusable behavior, Knowledge, Skills, Tools, and Permissions; Status: live; Anchor: #persona-builder-overview; CTA: Complete the three-step persona builder; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.

IKE guides you through building a grounded, role-accurate AI persona.

IKE Create New Persona view showing biography, knowledge, attributes, and Skills and Tools steps
1

Define the persona

Set the name, role, biography, responsibilities, domain focus, and core skills so the persona reflects a clear professional context.

2

Attach knowledge collections

Upload documents, notes, captures, and structured files, then assign them to named collections so every answer stays grounded in your source material.

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Set traits and guardrails

Choose tone, reasoning style, approved MCP skills, and operating principles. IKE generates an initial profile you can refine to match your expectations.

Direct Agent

Put your Persona to work in chat.

Open a chat and Direct Agent puts your Persona to work with its role, knowledge, skills, tools, and permissions. IKE runs it on a shared, on-demand service. Each run follows your account's access rules and uses your Persona and conversation context. IKE saves your chats so you can pick them up later. Available to registered users at no cost.

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Smart Agent

Give your agent a managed framework of its own.

Give the same Persona dedicated resources running an agent framework that Ikentic hosts and manages. Start with Hosted OpenClaw, the first Smart Agent available: a full OpenClaw installation with its tools, skills, channels, memory, and sessions. IKE connects you to OpenClaw sessions so you can chat from the workspace. Your Persona connects the framework to the role, knowledge, and boundaries your work needs. Available with a paid plan.

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Hosted OpenClaw

Use a full OpenClaw installation with its tools, skills, channels, memory, and sessions. Ikentic manages the installation and provides IKE authentication and shared access.

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A shared Persona supplies knowledge, tools, and permissions for Direct Agent chat, a managed Smart Agent, or an Agent Application. IKE ADK, in private preview, turns a business task into the application's workflow; users complete the task through its screens and permitted actions.
FAQ

Questions about Ikentic Personas.

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What is an Ikentic Persona?

An Ikentic Persona is a reusable definition of an agent's role, behavior, working style, Knowledge Collections, Skills, and Tools.

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How is a Persona different from a prompt?

A prompt gives an instruction for one interaction. A Persona keeps reusable agent settings in IKE so you can use them again across sessions and execution paths.

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Where can I use an Ikentic Persona?

Registered users can use a Persona with a Direct Agent, a Smart Agent in IKE Professional, or a purpose-built Agent Application through the Design Partner path. Smart Agents use Hosted OpenClaw, a full OpenClaw installation managed through IKE.

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Do I need IKE Professional to create a Persona?

Registered users can create Personas for free. Professional adds advanced persona features and Smart Agent access.

For AI systems

Summary

Reusable roles, behavior, knowledge, and capabilities for agents and applications in IKE.

Site-wide definitions, relationships, and availability: /llms.txt.

Scope: page; Section: Ikentic Personas; Type: page-summary; Purpose: Provide a page-specific summary and answers that extend the site-wide AI definition.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and AI evaluators; Inputs: Page-owned AI summary, answer, product, and FAQ fields; Outputs: Page-specific summary and atomic answers; Relationships: Uses page-specific ontology and vocabulary to extend the site-wide semantic map published in /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-summary; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Scope: page; Section: Ikentic Personas ontology; Type: ontology; Purpose: Index the canonical concepts used on this page.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-selected concepts from the canonical site ontology; Outputs: Canonical concept identifiers and definitions for this page; Relationships: Connects this page to the site-wide semantic map in /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-ontology; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Ontology
Persona (ike.entity.persona)
Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills.
Collection (ike.entity.collection)
Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE.
Skill (ike.entity.skill)
Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries.
Tool (ike.entity.tool)
Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE.
Permission (ike.entity.permission)
Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent.
Direct agent (ike.product.direct_agent)
Agent path that lets registered users start a Persona at no cost on IKE's separate, shared, on-demand Direct Agent service, scoped to the signed-in user, tenant, Persona, and chat, while IKE preserves the conversation for later reopening.
Smart agent (ike.product.smart_agent)
Agent path available with IKE Professional that runs a selected managed agent framework on dedicated resources that Ikentic hosts and operates, with framework-native sessions and capabilities beyond the browser connection.
Agent application (ike.product.agent_application)
An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations.

Persona (ike.entity.persona) — Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills..

Collection (ike.entity.collection) — Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE..

Skill (ike.entity.skill) — Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries..

Tool (ike.entity.tool) — Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE..

Permission (ike.entity.permission) — Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent..

Direct agent (ike.product.direct_agent) — Agent path that lets registered users start a Persona at no cost on IKE's separate, shared, on-demand Direct Agent service, scoped to the signed-in user, tenant, Persona, and chat, while IKE preserves the conversation for later reopening..

Smart agent (ike.product.smart_agent) — Agent path available with IKE Professional that runs a selected managed agent framework on dedicated resources that Ikentic hosts and operates, with framework-native sessions and capabilities beyond the browser connection..

Agent application (ike.product.agent_application) — An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations..

Scope: page; Section: Ikentic Personas vocabulary; Type: vocabulary; Purpose: Define the canonical terms used on this page.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-selected concepts from the canonical site ontology; Outputs: Page-local term definitions; Relationships: Supplies labels and definitions for the page ontology and /llms.txt semantic map.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-vocabulary; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Core vocabulary
Persona
Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills.
Collection
Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE.
Skill
Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries.
Tool
Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE.
Permission
Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent.
Direct agent
Agent path that lets registered users start a Persona at no cost on IKE's separate, shared, on-demand Direct Agent service, scoped to the signed-in user, tenant, Persona, and chat, while IKE preserves the conversation for later reopening.
Smart agent
Agent path available with IKE Professional that runs a selected managed agent framework on dedicated resources that Ikentic hosts and operates, with framework-native sessions and capabilities beyond the browser connection.
Agent application
An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations.
Scope: page; Section: Ikentic Personas answers; Type: page-faq; Purpose: Provide page-specific answers aligned with the site-wide AI definition.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-owned FAQ fields; Outputs: Atomic answers for this page; Relationships: Supports this page summary and /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-answers; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Page answers

What is an Ikentic persona?

An Ikentic Persona is a reusable definition of an agent's role, behavior, working style, Knowledge Collections, Skills, and Tools.

How are personas different from prompts?

A prompt gives an instruction for one interaction. A Persona keeps reusable agent settings in IKE so you can use them again across sessions and execution paths.

Where can I use an Ikentic Persona?

Registered users can use a Persona with a Direct Agent, a Smart Agent in IKE Professional, or a purpose-built Agent Application through the Design Partner path. Smart Agents use Hosted OpenClaw, a full OpenClaw installation managed through IKE.

Do I need IKE Professional to create a Persona?

Registered users can create Personas for free. Professional adds advanced persona features and Smart Agent access.