diff --git a/kde-plasma/metadata.xml b/kde-plasma/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb573f2c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-plasma/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE catmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<catmetadata>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		The kde-plasma category contains packages for the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
+	</longdescription>
+</catmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/categories b/profiles/categories
index 5b14684b2d..b5ec8a2278 100644
--- a/profiles/categories
+++ b/profiles/categories
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ dev-nim
 dev-zig
 mpv-plugin
 net-client
+kde-plasma
 phosh-base