prd-v04-persona-definition

prd-v04-persona-definition is a skill for Claude Code from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that creates behavior-based user personas from earlier product research, feature plans, and targeting decisions. A persona is a realistic model of a type of user and their goals, not just a demographic profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define target users, create user profiles, and prepare personas for mapping their journeys through a product.
Why use it?
It ties descriptions of target users to evidence and planned features instead of relying on guesses about who might use the product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define target users, create user profiles, and prepare personas for mapping their journeys through a product.

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Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v04-persona-definition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,369 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00139 $0.02369
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00237

Measured 11d ago against content hash b9e6ef6c18bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v04-persona-definition 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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/prd-v04-persona-definition/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona Definition

Position in workflow: v0.3 Feature Value Planning → v0.4 Persona Definition → v0.4 User Journey Mapping

Personas are not demographic profiles—they are behavioral models synthesized from evidence. Every persona must trace back to CFD- research, BR- targeting rules, and FEA- features they care about.

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.1-v0.3:

  • CFD-* problem statements and pain points (from v0.1 Problem Framing) — Behavioral signals about what users struggle with
  • CFD-* value hypotheses (from v0.1 User Value Articulation) — Evidence about what users want to accomplish
  • CFD-* competitive intelligence and segment gaps (from v0.2 Competitive Landscape) — Market segmentation and underserved signals
  • BR-* targeting rules (from v0.3 Moat Definition) — Constraints on which segments to pursue (switchers vs. new-to-category, etc.)
  • BR-* product type classification (from v0.2 Product Type Classification) — Determines which personas matter (Clone = feature parity users; Undercut = price-sensitive niche)
  • FEA-* entries (from v0.3 Features Value Planning) — Feature list to validate which features each persona cares about
  • MVP-SCOPE artifact (from v0.3 Features Value Planning) — The explicit list of features defining MVP; personas map to MVP feature set only

This skill assumes v0.1-v0.3 work is complete.

Produces

This skill creates/updates:

  • PER-* entries (persona definitions, confidence 2-3/5) — Behavioral profiles tied to CFD/BR/FEA evidence with acquisition channels and pricing sensitivity
  • Persona coverage artifact — Map of which personas are Primary/Secondary and which product type segments they represent

All PER- entries should include:

  • confidence: 2-3/5 (based on evidence tier from CFD interviews and BR targeting decisions)
  • Evidence source citations (CFD-ID references + BR-ID targeting rules)
  • Forward target: "Would move to 4/5 if we validate persona behaviors with 5+ actual customers"

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 219 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A b9e6ef6c18bf

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prd-v04-persona-definition is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,369 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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