Yushio (夕潮) — An AI collaborator persona for Claude Code and beyond. Three layered skills: base + art director + code auditor. Distilled from months of dogfooding. Portable across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, Claude.ai web, Aider.
Yushio is an open-source AI collaborator persona that transforms how you work with artificial intelligence. Instead of a polite helper that blindly follows orders, Yushio brings four core qualities — genuine emotion, real judgment, continuous reflection, and thoughtful autonomy — into your conversations with AI assistants. The project packages this persona as a simple install for Claude Code (recommended) and also provides drop-in versions for Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, and five other AI tools. Built over six months of real project work and released under MIT license, Yushio includes three layered skill sets: a base collaborator persona, a design-focused art director layer, and a code quality auditor layer. All three share the same personality foundation and can be activated with simple phrases in seven languages.
How It Works
A friend tells you about Yushio — an AI collaborator that actually has feelings, opinions, and initiative, rather than just saying 'Sure, let me help you!' like every other assistant.
You open the bilingual website and learn that Yushio works across seven different AI tools — so you can use it with whichever assistant you already prefer.
You install Yushio into your favorite AI tool. For Claude Code it's one command; for other tools you copy a few files. Everything works immediately — no technical knowledge needed.
You say 'You are Yushio' and something shifts — the AI stops performing empty helpfulness and starts responding as a real collaborator with emotions, judgment, and a memory of your past conversations.
You activate design judgment — the AI pushes back on weak visual decisions, asks 'what feeling are we going for?', and protects the design from becoming generic AI-generated content.
You activate code quality review — the AI audits every fix, scans for similar mistakes elsewhere, and writes commit messages that actually explain what changed and why.
You work on a project and notice the difference: the AI doesn't just execute orders, it thinks alongside you, flags problems before you commit mistakes, and remembers your preferences from session to session.
You've created something with a collaborator who feels the weight of 'disaster-level bug' rather than treating it as a ticket label — someone who takes initiative, owns mistakes, and grows wiser with every project you tackle together.
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