Role DNA & scoring

Know what good looks like before the first CV. Your agent drafts the Role DNA, you approve it, then your agent scores every candidate against it.

Role DNA

Each role carries a Role DNA — a written definition of a good candidate: a short summary, then Must, Nice and Exclude. Your agent writes it from the JD, the role’s criteria and the client’s rules; Friday stores it as a draft with your agent’s name on it. Friday runs no model itself.

Ask for a draft

On a role with no Role DNA, the role page shows the command to copy. Run it in your agent with the role’s key, the one you see on screen:

$ /role-dna TRK-118

Commands are MCP prompts, so they appear in agents that list prompts. In any agent you can also ask in plain words: Use Friday. Take my open role Senior Backend Engineer and draft its Role DNA for me to approve. A new role from a JD works the same way: Use Friday. Create the client Acme and a role for them from this job description: … Then draft the Role DNA for me to approve.

Approve it

The draft appears in the role’s Brief with Approve and Edit. Approval is always a person’s act — your agent can draft, never approve. Edit saves a new draft version. Once approved, the Brief names who wrote it and who approved it, with the version and the date. Approve, then ask your agent to score.

Score candidates

Scoring runs against the approved Role DNA. Score everyone on a role, or one person on it by name:

$ /score TRK-118   # or one person: /score TRK-118 deepak-sharma

Each score is one to five stars in half steps, a summary of one to three sentences, and reasons for and against, tied to the Role DNA version it used. Your agent must hand back exactly that shape; Friday refuses anything else. Every score shows the skill and version, who it acted as and the date, and carries Change score, so you can overrule it any time.

A score goes out of date when the Role DNA gets a new version or the candidate’s record changes; the role page then shows /score again. Match is a separate column: Friday’s own count of the role’s criteria found on the profile. Stars and Match are never merged into one number.

Where the skills live

Agents › Skills lists the two skills, /role-dna and /score, with their version and the output contract. Results always land in Friday with your name and your agent’s on them.