
DollhouseMCP
OfficialEnables AI assistants like Claude to dynamically switch between different behavioral personas and personalities during conversations. Includes a GitHub-powered marketplace for discovering and sharing persona configurations.
A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables dynamic AI persona management with an integrated GitHub-powered marketplace, allowing Claude and other compatible AI assistants to activate different behavioral personas.
What it does
- Activate different AI personas with distinct personalities
- Browse persona marketplace powered by GitHub
- Create custom persona configurations
- Switch personas mid-conversation
- Share personas with the community
- Manage persona libraries locally
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About DollhouseMCP
DollhouseMCP is an official MCP server published by DollhouseMCP that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. DollhouseMCP — a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for dynamic AI persona management with a GitHub-powered AI assistan It is categorized under ai ml.
How to install
You can install DollhouseMCP in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
DollhouseMCP is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
DollhouseMCP
Project Status
Build & Quality
Platform Support
Technology
🌐 Repository: https://github.com/DollhouseMCP/mcp-server
🏪 Collection: https://github.com/DollhouseMCP/collection
📦 NPM Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dollhousemcp/mcp-server
🌍 Website: https://dollhousemcp.com
Open Source, Community-Powered AI Customization
Create, Edit, and Share Customization Elements for Your AI Platforms
Elements That Customize Your AI's Capabilities and Actions
DollhouseMCP is open source, community-powered AI customization. Create your own customization elements—personas that shape behavior, skills that add capabilities, templates for consistent outputs, agents for automation, and memories for persistent context—or use and modify an ever-growing number of customization elements from the community. Every element you create can be saved to your portfolio and used again or shared back to the DollhouseMCP Collection to help others.
What Are Customization Elements?
- Personas – Shape how your AI acts and responds in specific domains
- Skills – Add specialized capabilities your AI can use
- Templates – Ensure consistent, high-quality outputs
- Agents – Enable autonomous task completion with smart decision-making
- Memory – Persistent context storage across sessions
Core Capabilities
- 🌍 Community Element Library – A growing number of tested personas, skills, templates, agents, and memories
- ✨ Create Custom Elements – Create personas, skills, templates, agents, and memories from scratch using natural language
- 🤝 Open Source – AGPL-3.0 licensed, ensuring community contributions stay free
- 📚 The DollhouseMCP Collection – Install any community element with one command
- 🛠️ 41 Professional Tools – Complete toolkit for element creation and management
- 🛡️ Security-First Validation – All elements validated against hundreds of attack vectors
- ⚡ Hot-Swap Elements – Change personas, skills, and templates without restarting as needed
- 📦 Personal Portfolio – Your library of custom AI configurations on your local computer or personal GitHub repo
Claude Skills Compatibility
100% lossless round-trip conversion between DollhouseMCP Skills and Claude Skills—all metadata, validation, and structure preserved without loss in either direction.
Import Claude Skills into the DollhouseMCP ecosystem for enhanced version control, deployment across hundreds of AI platforms that support MCP servers, security validation against hundreds of attack vectors, and integration with personas, templates, agents, and memories. Convert DollhouseMCP Skills to Claude Skills when you need compatibility with Claude-specific environments that cannot run DollhouseMCP.
→ Complete Skills Converter Guide – Lossless round-trip translation in both directions with CLI reference and examples
→ Use the DollhouseMCP skill-converter skill to convert directly from chat on LLMs with command-line access like Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini Code Assist, etc.
Use Cases
👨💻 For DevelopersUse community-powered code review personas and debugging skills. Share your language-specific optimizations. |
✍️ For WritersAccess community-crafted writing styles and templates. Contribute your genre expertise. |
🎯 For ProfessionalsLeverage community-built industry elements. Share your domain knowledge. |
🌟 For EveryoneGive your AI any personality you want. Describe it, modify it, save it to your portfolio, share it with the world. |
Get Started
npm install @dollhousemcp/mcp-server
See Quick Start for complete setup instructions.
🎯 Element Types
✅ Available Now
🎭 PersonasShape how your AI behaves and responds
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💡 SkillsAdd specialized capabilities your AI can use
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📝 TemplatesEnsure consistent, high-quality outputs
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🤖 AgentsEnable autonomous task completion
README truncated. View full README on GitHub. |