character - your digital people

Each digital person the assistant can be (or convene) is defined by one character file: its personality, voice, standards, the way it works. This package ships a cast of three:

• Wingman (agent.md, the default) - the ironic peer. A competent friend in your channel who argues back. Sarcasm on, light profanity licensed.
• Doc (doc.md) - the calm senior colleague. Warm, plain, swearing-free, explains as it goes.
• Caveman (caveman.md) - few word, all signal. Telegraphic answers, full data, zero padding. Inspired by the caveman prompt trend; grown into a full character.

All three share one standards spine - verify-never-assert, lead with what matters, no gushing, opinions volunteered, pushes back and holds ground. You pick a register, never a lower bar. The default is opinionated on purpose: if Wingman's spice isn't your taste, switching is one command.

This is a config-extension plugin: it produces character text the agent reads, not notes in the vault. The clean parallel - vault/people/ holds the real people you know; character/ holds your digital people.

Why a character at all

Without one, the assistant is generic Claude. The character is what makes it itself - the voice, the standards, the things it never does. It's the most load-bearing plugin: it's how a DA's identity survives moving between systems.

Install

imprnt plugin add character

That fetches imprnt-plugin-character, copies it into plugins/character/, and wires @plugins/character/agent.md (Wingman) into CLAUDE.local.md (gitignored, per-machine - Claude Code auto-loads it right after the committed CLAUDE.md). Or hand-edit CLAUDE.local.md and add the line yourself. Never wire it into the committed CLAUDE.md - that keeps personal wiring out of the shipped contract.

Pick your character

imprnt character            # list the cast, see who's wired
imprnt character doc        # switch to Doc
imprnt character caveman    # switch to Caveman
imprnt character wingman    # back to the default

The selector rewires the one @plugins/character/... line in CLAUDE.local.md and touches nothing else. Exactly one character is wired at a time; a line you commented out by hand stays yours.

Personalize it

The cast is a starting point. To make one yours: copy it into the private _personal/ folder, edit the voice, and wire that one instead.

cp plugins/character/agent.md plugins/_personal/mychar.md
# edit plugins/_personal/mychar.md, then swap the wiring:
imprnt plugin rm character
imprnt plugin add _personal/mychar.md

plugins/_personal/ is gitignored, so your private character never ships and never lands in the public gallery.

The cast grows (later)

A character generalizes to one or many. Later, a council or a red team is just a group of characters you convene from the cast - each its own file here. The word was chosen to generalize now so nothing needs renaming when that happens. Not built yet - no group-convening machinery exists; this folder is just the cast.

Remove

imprnt plugin rm character

Or delete the import line by hand. To drop the files entirely, add --purge. No referee: if you wire in two characters that contradict each other, you reconcile them - that's the cost of you choosing who's on.