A persona plugin is a Claude plugin built around one professional role: a handful of capability skills for the work that role actually does, plus a short onboarding skill so you know where to start.

Think of it as hiring a specialist instead of asking a generalist to guess. A plain Claude conversation can help with almost anything at a shallow level. A persona plugin is scoped and reviewed for one job: writing a technical spec, running a compliance review, synthesizing research data, and similar recurring work for that role.

What’s inside a persona

Every persona ships with about three capability skills, each covering a core part of that role’s workflow, plus one onboarding skill named /help-<abbreviation>. Run that command first. It gives you a menu of what the persona can do and how to start, so you are never guessing at the right prompt.

For example, a persona built for a research-heavy role might separate its work into a planning skill, a synthesis skill, and a reporting skill, each one scoped to a distinct stage of that role’s process instead of one catch-all prompt.

Installing a persona

There are two ways to get a persona onto your machine. If your plan includes marketplace access, subscribing through Polar.sh automatically invites you to RolePlugin’s private GitHub marketplace, where you install plugins the same way you would any other Claude plugin. If you would rather not use GitHub, download a zip of any persona directly from the members app at app.roleplugin.com. Logging in there only takes an email address; we send a magic link instead of asking for a password.

Where personas run

Persona plugins work inside Claude Code and Cowork. They are not available in the claude.ai chat website; they rely on the plugin system that Claude Code and Cowork provide.

Getting started

Once a persona is installed, start with its /help-<abbreviation> skill to see what it offers, then call the capability skill that matches the task in front of you. Each skill is built to ask for the context it needs and to flag anything it cannot verify on its own, rather than guessing.

Persona plugins are built to assist, not to replace licensed judgment. Some personas, particularly those touching legal, financial, or compliance work, are built with explicit rules against making a final determination on your behalf. They do the research and drafting; a qualified professional still signs off.