persona-generator

persona-generator is a skill for Claude Code from ncklrs/claude-chrome-user-testing. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format and generation method for creating realistic user-testing personas from plain-language descriptions. Personas describe traits such as technical comfort, patience, age, background, and behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create personas for testing web applications, including users with different technical skills, reading speeds, and interaction habits.
Why use it?
It makes custom test users consistent and usable by the project's user-testing command. This helps test an interface from different kinds of users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the user-testing-agent plugin — 14 skills, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create personas for testing web applications, including users with different technical skills, reading speeds, and interaction habits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ncklrs/claude-chrome-user-testing/persona-generator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ncklrs/claude-chrome-user-testing --skill persona-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ncklrs/claude-chrome-user-testing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install user-testing-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 10 commands.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,575 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 $0.00000 $0.02575
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01288
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00258

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0e3d013c4db3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

persona-generator 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.

skills/persona-generator/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona Generator Skill

This skill provides the schema and generation logic for creating custom user testing personas.

Purpose

Generate complete, realistic user personas from natural language descriptions. The generated personas are compatible with the /user-test command and follow the same schema as built-in personas.

Complete Persona Schema

{
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "category": "custom",
  "techComfort": "number (1-10)",
  "patience": "number (1-10)",

  "genderVariants": {
    "male": {
      "name": "string",
      "pronouns": "he/him",
      "age": "number",
      "background": "string (2-3 sentences)",
      "additionalTraits": ["string array (2-4 items)"]
    },
    "female": {
      "name": "string",
      "pronouns": "she/her",
      "age": "number",
      "background": "string (2-3 sentences)",
      "additionalTraits": ["string array (2-4 items)"]
    },
    "neutral": {
      "name": "string",
      "pronouns": "they/them",
      "age": "number",
      "background": "string (2-3 sentences)",
      "additionalTraits": ["string array (2-4 items)"]
    }
  },

  "traits": {
    "readingSpeed": "slow | medium | fast",
    "clickConfidence": "hesitant | normal | decisive",
    "errorRecovery": "gives-up | persistent | adaptive | escalates",
    "scrollBehavior": "methodical | searching | impatient",
    "formFilling": "careful | rushed | thorough"
  },

  "preferences": {
    "prefersVisual": "boolean",
    "expectsMobile": "boolean",
    "trustsAutofill": "boolean",
    "readsInstructions": "boolean"
  },

  "timing": {
    "baseReadingWPM": "number (100-400)",
    "clickDelay": "number (200-2500 ms)",
    "hoverBeforeClick": "number (100-1000 ms)",
    "confusionPause": "number (3000-25000 ms)",
    "successPause": "number (300-1000 ms)",
    "pageLoadTolerance": "number (2000-10000 ms)",
    "formFieldPause": "number (400-1200 ms)"
  },

  "narrationStyle": {
    "vocabulary": "formal | casual | technical | simple",
    "frustrationThreshold": "number (1-10)",
    "verbosity": "terse | normal | chatty",
    "expressions": ["string array (10-15 characteristic phrases)"]
  },

  "frustrationTriggers": ["string array (8-15 specific triggers)"],
  "positiveReactions": ["string array (8-15 positive elements)"],
  "typicalBehaviors": ["string array (8-12 typical behaviors)"],

  "mentalModels": {
    "formsAre": "string (how user perceives forms)",
    "buttonsAre": "string (how user perceives buttons)",
    "websitesAre": "string (how user perceives websites)",
    "errorsAre": "string (how user perceives errors)",
    "passwordsAre": "string (how user perceives passwords)",
    "accountsAre": "string (how user perceives accounts)"
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 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. 11d ago First seen · 300 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0e3d013c4db3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

persona-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ncklrs/claude-chrome-user-testing (20 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,575 tokens. 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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