build-user-persona

build-user-persona is a skill for Claude Code from felipecabargas/gambit. It costs 105 tokens per session (3,326 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating user personas from research evidence. A persona is a structured description of a representative user, including their goals, frustrations, situation, and behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn interviews, surveys, support tickets, or research summaries into personas for feature requests, product strategy, design briefs, or design reviews.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of planning for an imagined user or mixing personal opinions with research findings. Each persona detail is marked as supported by evidence or inferred from it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the gambit plugin — 13 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to turn interviews, surveys, support tickets, or research summaries into personas for feature requests, product strategy, design briefs, or design reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/felipecabargas/gambit/build-user-persona
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add felipecabargas/gambit --skill build-user-persona
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/felipecabargas/gambit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gambit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,326 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.03326
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01663
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00333

Measured 9d ago against content hash cae172cd2563, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-user-persona scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/build-user-persona/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Persona Builder

When to Use

Use this skill whenever you need to crystallise who you are building for. It adds the most value when:

  • Before writing a feature request — ground the problem statement in a concrete user so the FR doesn't describe a product for a hypothetical person
  • Before authoring a product strategy — establish the user segments the strategy is designed to serve before debating priorities
  • When onboarding new team members — give engineers, designers, and stakeholders a shared mental model of users that is traceable to real data, not opinions
  • When aligning design and engineering on who they're building for — prevent scope creep caused by different people imagining different users
  • After running synthesize-user-research — when a synthesis doc is ready, use this skill to add the persona layer that makes themes and pain points actionable
  • Before a design review — ensure design decisions can be evaluated against a named persona, not "users in general"

Input Format

The skill accepts research data in any of the following formats. You can paste content directly into the chat, provide a file path, or combine both.

Research synthesis document (output of synthesize-user-research):

# Research Synthesis: Onboarding 2026-Q1
Sources: 8 participants / 200 surveys / 42 tickets
Themes:
  1. Manual export workaround — Validated (6/8 sources)
  2. Permissions confusion — Validated (5/8 sources)
  ...

Raw interview notes:

Participant 2 — ops manager, 300-person logistics firm
"I'm in the product every day but only for about 15 minutes. I need to see the
status of our three main workflows at a glance — I don't have time to dig in."
[Observation: primary use case is status monitoring, not configuration]

Survey data with open-text responses:

Role: Head of Operations (42% of respondents)
Primary job: Monitor workflow health across teams
Top frustration: "Too many clicks to see what I actually care about"
Top need: "A summary view I can check in under a minute"

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 301 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A cae172cd2563

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build-user-persona is a skill published in the GitHub repository felipecabargas/gambit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 3,326 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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