Synthteam

synthteam (plugin)

A plugin for consulting *distilled personas* of colleagues — locally, without involving them. Useful for pressure-testing plans, anticipating pushback, or stress-testing decisions through someone else's lens.

Personas are simulations, not the real people. Verify anything load-bearing with the real humans before acting on it.

Skills

The plugin has three skills that split into an *ingestion* side and a *consumption* side. distill-slack-persona produces persona docs; ask-colleague and ask-team consume them. Every persona that exists is automatically available to both consuming skills.

distill-slack-persona — build a persona

Turns a colleague's Slack history into a structured persona doc: a natural-language description of *what they know, what they believe, and how they decide*. It dumps their channel messages with a script, then runs a multi-agent pipeline that distills the raw messages into five facets (strategic priorities, specific opinions, decision-making patterns, domain knowledge, and operational context). The doc captures substance, not voice — no verbatim text, no style mimicry. This is the only skill that writes personas; the others just read them. See how to use it below.

ask-colleague — one person's take

Consults a single distilled persona for their likely take, critique, or pushback on an idea — locally, without involving the real person. Use it to pressure-test a plan, anticipate a reaction, or surface the objection you might dodge by not asking. It answers in first-person *as that person would reason*, grounded in their persona doc, and flags when it's extrapolating beyond what the doc covers.
Invoke it: ask alex about , what would alex think of , or /ask-colleague alex …

ask-team — a panel that deliberates

Convenes a simulated…