Installing personas

Installing via download

Download a persona zip from your library and extract it into your Claude skills directory. No GitHub required.

If you would rather not connect a GitHub account, download the persona directly.

Download the zip

Sign in to your library and open the persona's detail page. Every available persona has a Download button once you are signed in and your subscription includes it. This gives you a zip named something like <persona>-<version>.zip.

Extract it

Extract the zip into your Claude skills directory:

unzip <persona>-<version>.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

That's it, there is no separate install command for the download route. Claude Code picks up skills placed under ~/.claude/skills/ directly.

Downloads do not auto-update

Personas installed by unzipping stay at whatever version you downloaded. The marketplace route updates automatically; the download route does not, so check back in your library for newer versions and re-download when you want to update. See Keeping personas updated.

No GitHub account needed

This route only needs your RolePlugin login. It works anywhere you can download a file and run unzip, including machines where you do not want to set up GitHub access at all.