catch-me-if-you-can

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The pitch

Frank Abagnale didn't attend medical school — he read the room, learned the shibboleths, and acted like a doctor until people stopped questioning him. This plugin does that for you.

Run /catch-me, name the role, and get back six artifacts that teach you the language, opinions, anti-patterns, and first-week actions of a real practitioner. The active-role skill then quietly folds that lens into the rest of your Claude Code session — so when you ask about your project, you get answers shaped by someone who's actually done the job.

Not a textbook. Every sentence is built to (a) teach a shibboleth, (b) install an opinion, (c) prevent a tell, or (d) trigger an action. Wikipedia-style overviews get cut.

Demo

$ /catch-me

» Which profession do you want to pass as? Role + flavor.
you> game developer — indie Unity 2D, solo

» How deep? (a) dinner-party  (b) week-one [default]  (c) month-one
you> week-one

» What are you working on in this project right now?
you> puzzle-platformer prototype, pixel art, testing mechanics

Activated: Indie Unity 2D Game Developer  (depth: week-one)

Top 5 lexicon terms you'll hear:
  • frame budget — 16.67ms per frame at 60fps
  • coroutines — Unity's preferred async primitive
  • addressables — Unity's asset loading system
  • ScriptableObject — data container decoupled from MonoBehaviour
  • dirty flag — "this changed, redraw/recompute"

3 opinions a real one always has:
  1. 2D Pixel Perfect package over DIY camera math — required, not nice-to-have
  2. URP yes, HDRP no — HDRP is wasted on 2D indie scope
  3. DOTS is not for you yet — stick with MonoBehaviour until proven bottleneck

First thing to do in this project:
  Open the profiler, screenshot GC allocations during gameplay.
  Anything above 0 per frame is your first fix target.

Files saved to .claude/catch-me/roles/game-dev-indie-unity-2d/

From here, any domain-relevant question you ask ("how should I split the first sprint?") gets answered through the active persona — automatically.

What gets generated

Six files per role, saved under .claude/catch-me/roles/<slug>/:

File	What it holds
persona.md	Voice, defaults, what this role challenges, what they never suggest
lexicon.md	40–60 shibboleths — each with realistic usage and the common misuse that outs a fake
signaling.md	3 opinions a real one always has, tool preferences, what the community laughs at
anti-patterns.md	Instant tells, prompts that out you, phrases to swap
monday.md	5-day concrete action plan — commands, files, people, decisions
project-playbook.md	Decision rules tied to your specific project

Plus a meta.json with slug, depth, generation timestamp.

Install

Add the marketplace in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add junjunjunbong/catch-me-if-you-can

Install the plugin:

/plugin install catch-me-if-you-can@junjunjunbong

Reload plugins:

/reload-plugins

Usage

Open any project in Claude Code and run:

/catch-me

Or pass a hint to skip the first question:

/catch-me game developer — indie Unity 2D
/catch-me "data engineering for batch pipelines"
/catch-me PM B2B SaaS early-stage

Depth levels

Depth	When to pick it
dinner-party	You need to hold a 10-minute conversation
week-one	You're starting Monday and need to survive the first week (default)
month-one	You'll make a small decision inside a month

Higher depth → thicker monday.md, richer project-playbook.md, more opinionated persona.md.

How it works

flowchart LR
    A["/catch-me"] --> B[catch-me skill]
    B -->|fork| C[role-onboarder<br/>subagent]
    C --> D[Read<br/>template]
    C --> E[Ask<br/>3 questions]
    C --> F[Generate<br/>6 artifacts]
    F --> G[write_role_files.sh]
    G --> H[(.claude/catch-me/<br/>roles/&lt;slug&gt;/)]
    G --> I[(active-role.json)]
    J[Follow-up<br/>question] -. auto-fires .-> K[active-role<br/>skill]
    K -. inline reads .-> H
    K --> L[Main response<br/>shaped by persona]