Role Switching

by wasabeef

Role Switching is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wasabeef in claude-code-cookbook.

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Install Role Switching

Copy Role Switching into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook/tree/main/plugins/en/skills/role ~/.claude/skills/role

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/en/skills/role/SKILL.md in wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/role
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Role Switching does

Role Switching lets a Claude Code agent adopt expert personas like security auditor, performance optimizer, code reviewer, architect, or QA engineer to perform specialized, evidence-based analysis. Use it when you need a focused audit, review, or optimization with structured professional output.

Role Switching is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Role Switching comes from a repository tagged claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Switch to expert role for specialized analysis

Switch to a specific role to perform specialized analysis or work.

Usage

/role <role_name> [--agent|-a]

Options

--agent or -a: Execute as a sub-agent (recommended for large-scale analysis)
- When using this option, if the role description includes proactive delegation phrases (such as "use PROACTIVELY"), more proactive automatic delegation will be enabled

Available Roles

Specialized Analysis Roles (Evidence-First Integrated)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Role Switching provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/role
/smart-review
/role-help
/multi-role
/role-debate

Frequently asked about Role Switching

What else does wasabeef publish alongside Role Switching?
Role Switching is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Dependencies, Analyze Performance and Check Fact. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Role Switching does, and is maintained by wasabeef in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook page.
How does Role Switching compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Role Switching ranks #1245 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Role Switching against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.