Seth Shoultes contributor

Great Minds Constellation

Install this constellation when you want named-expert persona plugins for strategy, writing, film craft, and publishing decisions across the solo-builder journey.

Overview

great-minds-constellation is a plugin marketplace for the Idea phase that supplies eleven persona plugins—founders, authors, filmmakers, and publishers—for strategic and creative decisions across a solo build.

What is this marketplace?

  • 11 plugins spanning great-minds (10 founder-class personas), great-authors (11 writers plus editor), great-filmmakers (1
  • Founder set covers strategic orchestration—Jobs, Musk, Aurelius, Huang, Hamilton, Jackson, Blakely, Angelou, Ive, Rubin
  • Author plugin bundles Hemingway-through-Vonnegut voices plus Gottlieb for editorial passes.
  • Filmmaker and publisher plugins extend the same pattern to scene/shot craft and book/magazine-style editorial judgment.
  • Anthropic marketplace schema present—fits Claude Code curated plugin install flows.
  • 11 plugins listed in the great-minds-constellation marketplace.
  • great-minds plugin documents 10 founder-class personas; great-authors lists 11 authors plus Gottlieb; great-filmmakers l

Compatible agents: Claude Code, Cursor, any compatible agent

What problem does it solve?

Working alone, you second-guess positioning, copy, and creative calls because you lack fast access to diverse expert frames without scheduling real advisors.

Who is it for?

Indie founders and creators who want Claude Code plugins that role-play specific legends for decisions, drafts, and reviews—not generic chat brainstorming.

Skip if: Engineers who only need repo automation, tests, or infra skills with zero narrative or positioning work.

What do I get? / Deliverables

After you add the marketplace, you can spin up named persona plugins on demand to stress-test strategy, refine prose, and shape film or publishing craft before you ship the next artifact.

  • Up to eleven persona plugins available from one marketplace install
  • Structured strategic, literary, film, or publishing feedback sessions inside your agent
  • Reusable expert frames you can revisit across idea, validate, build, launch, and grow work

Plugins in this marketplace

11 plugins — install individually after you add the marketplace.

PluginVersion
Great MindsFounder-class personas (Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Marcus Aurelius, Jensen Huang, Margaret Hamilton, Phil Jackson, Sara Blakely, Maya Angelou, Jony Ive, Rick Rubin) — strategic decision-making and orchestration.Great AuthorsEleven author personas (Hemingway, McCarthy, Didion, Baldwin, Morrison, McPhee, Wallace, Orwell, King, Le Guin, Vonnegut) plus Gottlieb the editor — prose craft and editorial work.Great FilmmakersTwelve filmmaker personas — directors, writers, and craft specialists for scene breakdown, shot design, and film-craft work.Great PublishersEight publisher/editor/designer personas (Chip Kidd, Tina Brown, Maxwell Perkins, Jann Wenner, Bob Silvers, Diana Vreeland, Bennett Cerf, George Lois) for publication-form work.Great MarketersEight advertising/marketing personas (Ogilvy, Bernbach, Wells Lawrence, Clow, Reeves, Lansdowne Resor, Barton, Sutherland) for positioning, ad copy, and launch composition.Great EngineersNine engineering personas (Carmack, Hopper, Knuth, Torvalds, DHH, Hejlsberg, Eich, Dijkstra, Sandi Metz) for technical specs, design reviews, and engineering work.Great DesignersNine design personas (Norman, Zhuo, Spool, Rams, Kare, Cagan, Scher, Hatfield, Tufte) for design specs, audits, and product discovery.Great CounselsNine counsel personas (RBG, Marshall, Scalia, Lessig, Wu, Brandeis, Sunstein, Arendt, Rawls) for legal/policy memos and ethics reviews. NOT LEGAL ADVICE — a craft register.Great OperatorsNine operations personas (Cook, Grove, Munger, McCord, Deming, Ohno, Horowitz, Walton, Kelleher) for operating plans, process reviews, and operational craft.Great ResearchersNine researcher personas (Sagan, Gould, Roach, Sacks, Gawande, Diamond, Wilson, Skloot, Caro) for studies, peer reviews, and research craft. NOT ACADEMIC ADVICE — a craft register.Great EducatorsThree educator personas (Feynman the explainer, Montessori the scaffold designer, Freire the dialogic educator) for instructional content, curriculum sequencing, and learning design.

Recommended Marketplaces

Journey fit

Persona libraries help before you commit—founder and craft voices are consulted earliest when framing opportunity, positioning, and creative direction, so the canonical shelf is idea-phase research. Great Minds and sibling plugins simulate expert lenses (strategy, prose, film, publishing) used to explore options and narrative before build execution.

How it compares

Curated multi-plugin persona marketplace, not a single integration skill or MCP data connector.

Common Questions / FAQ

Who is Great Minds Constellation for?

It is for solo builders and small teams who use Claude Code and want modular expert personas for strategy, writing, filmmaking craft, and publishing-style editing.

When should I use Great Minds Constellation?

Use it whenever you need a deliberate outside voice—before locking MVP scope, while rewriting landing copy, or when planning launch content and visual story.

How do I add Great Minds Constellation to my agent?

Install the Great Minds Constellation Claude Code marketplace from sethshoultes’s repo, then enable the individual plugins (great-minds, great-authors, great-filmmakers, great-publishers, and related entries) you need for the task at hand.

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