Claude Personas

🎭 claude-personas

Give Claude a mindset that sticks.

Persistent personas for Claude Code: pick a persona and Claude holds it on *every* turn, not just the message you invoked it on. Run one, several in parallel, or convene them as a team that debates a topic and reports back.

*Built for Claude Code; also installable as GitHub Copilot custom agents.*

A normal skill or prompt shapes a single reply, then Claude drifts back to default. A persona doesn't. A hook re-asserts it each turn, so contrarian keeps pressure-testing you for the whole session. Personas are plain Markdown files you own, and you can author new ones through a guided interview.

Install

No install scripts, no manual settings.json edits; the plugin registers its own hooks. Requires Node (the hooks and CLI are plain Node.js).

To remove it later: claude plugin uninstall personas@claude-personas.

Using GitHub Copilot?

Copilot has two surfaces, and they install differently.

Copilot CLI is Claude Code compatible, so it runs the real plugin with the same commands:

You get the full thing: persistent personas, parallel, debates. The CLI namespaces the command, so you run /personas:personas  (e.g. /personas:personas senior). Turn on Chat: Use Claude Hooks in settings so persistence works.

The Copilot extension (the chat panel in VS Code) does not run plugins. Install the personas as Copilot custom agents (.agent.md files) instead: see copilot/.

Recommended: use a Claude model. Everything here is tested on Claude; behaviour on other models is unverified.

Quick start

Bundled personas

Ships with two to start. Create your own with /personas new or drop a file into ~/.claude/personas/.

Usage

Everything runs through the /personas command; there are no natural-language triggers (the hooks never parse…