Using personas

Once a persona is installed, whether through the marketplace or a downloaded zip, there are two ways to run any of its capabilities. Just ask Claude for the kind of work that persona covers, in your own words, and Claude uses the installed persona's knowledge and workflow to help. Or run the capability directly with its slash command, if you already know which one you want.

The slash command syntax

A persona is a Claude Code plugin, and each of its capabilities is a skill inside that plugin. Every skill is automatically an invocable slash command, namespaced as /<persona-slug>:<skill-name>. For example, the Business Analyst persona (slug business-analyst) ships a "Managing tickets" capability whose skill folder is managing-tickets, so that capability's command is /business-analyst:managing-tickets. The persona's built-in help guide works the same way, see Help guides.

An example

With the Business Analyst persona installed, asking something like "draft a BRD from these discovery notes" or "map this process as-is and to-be" is enough, the matching skill activates on its own. Typing /business-analyst:eliciting-and-documenting-requirements runs the same capability directly. You do not need to say "use the Business Analyst persona" first, though you can if you want to be explicit, useful once you have several personas installed, see Auto-activation.