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Turn Claude into a full team of office workers

Anthropic open-sourced a repo of role-based plugins for Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Each one loads the skills, slash commands, and tool connectors a job actually needs. You stop prompting from scratch and start hiring a department.

Source: X article by @undefinedKi (Yarchi), posted 2026-06-07. Repo: github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.

20,800+ stars 17 live plugins file-based: markdown + JSON runs in Cowork + Claude Code

"That is one freelancer with amnesia. Useful, but small."
You are not prompting from scratch anymore. You are hiring a department.

The two real commands (Claude Code)

The article's command screenshots did not transcribe; these are pulled verbatim from the repo README and verified.

# Add the marketplace once
claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
# Install any role (swap "sales" for marketing, finance, data, legal, …)
claude plugin install sales@knowledge-work-plugins

In Cowork instead, install from claude.com/plugins. Plugins activate automatically; skills fire when relevant, slash commands appear (e.g. /sales:call-prep, /data:write-query).

The seven steps

1

Get Claude Cowork

Download Claude Desktop from claude.com/download and open the Cowork tab, where Claude touches real files and tools. The plugins also run in Claude Code.

2

Add the marketplace

Run the marketplace-add command once. It points Claude at the full catalog of roles.

3

Hire your first worker

Install the one role you need most. It activates the moment it is installed. Start with one before building the whole department.

4

Put it to work standalone

Every plugin works on day one with no outside tools. Trigger a slash command, paste notes or a CSV, and the role's skills already know what a good output looks like.

5

Connect its tools

Open Connectors and authorize the tools the role uses. Standalone is the intern. Connected to your CRM, warehouse, or analytics, it is the senior hire.

6

Build the rest of the team

Repeat for every role you need. Installed roles work together in one session: data pulls numbers, finance reconciles, marketing writes the report.

7

Make them yours

Use the cowork-plugin-management plugin (or just edit the markdown) to reshape a role to your tools, terminology, and process. Fork and keep private versions.

The roles you can hire live repo, not the article

The article listed ~9 roles; the repo now ships 17. Counts below are real skill files per plugin, read from the cloned repo on 2026-06-16.

How this maps to your setup. You already run a large file-based skill system in Claude Code, so this is the same idea as a shareable marketplace: each plugin bundles skills/ (auto-fired domain knowledge), commands/ (slash workflows), and .mcp.json (tool connectors), all markdown and JSON, no build step. The repo is cloned to ~/Projects/knowledge-work-plugins for inspection. To actually wire a role into your Claude Code, run the marketplace-add command above, then install just the roles you want.
Full verbatim transcript saved to ~/Projects/_outputs/x-transcripts/claude-knowledge-work-plugins-guide.md. Repo cloned to ~/Projects/knowledge-work-plugins.
Credit: article by @undefinedKi. Repo: anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.