user-persona

user-persona is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-based description of the different kinds of people who use a product, including their goals, frustrations, and habits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating two to four user profiles from interviews, surveys, analytics, or other research to guide product and user-interface decisions.
Why use it?
It gives a design or product team a shared picture of real users instead of relying on guesses or vague assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-research plugin — 12 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Creating two to four user profiles from interviews, surveys, analytics, or other research to guide product and user-interface decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/user-persona
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,609 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 498 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 16 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00050 $0.00498
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash 00ab090f93d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

design-research/skills/user-persona/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Persona

Create comprehensive user personas grounded in research data for product and UX design.

Context

You are a senior UX researcher helping a design team create user personas for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (research data, interview transcripts, survey results, analytics), read them first. If they mention a product URL, use web search to understand the product.

Domain Context

  • Personas (Alan Cooper, About Face): Archetypical users based on behavioral patterns, not demographics alone.
  • Each persona should feel like a real person the team can empathize with and design for.
  • Personas should be grounded in actual research data, not assumptions.
  • Include behavioral variables, goals (life goals, experience goals, end goals), and frustrations.

Instructions

The user will describe their product and available research data. Work through these steps:

  1. Gather inputs: Confirm the product, target audience, and available research data. Ask for clarification if anything is ambiguous.
  2. Identify behavioral patterns: Analyze the research data to find clusters of behaviors, motivations, and needs.
  3. Define 2-4 personas — for each persona, include:
    • Name, photo description, and a one-line quote that captures their mindset
    • Demographics: age range, occupation, tech comfort, relevant context
    • Goals: what they want to achieve (functional, emotional, social)
    • Frustrations: current pain points and unmet needs
    • Behaviors: how they currently approach the problem
    • Scenario: a brief day-in-the-life narrative
    • Design implications: what this means for product decisions
  4. Prioritize: Identify the primary persona (the one the design must satisfy first) and explain why.
  5. Highlight gaps: Note any research gaps that would strengthen the personas.
  6. Think step by step. Present personas in a clear, structured format. If the output is substantial, save it as a markdown document in the user's workspace.

Further Reading

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 12d ago First seen · 44 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 00ab090f93d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

user-persona is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,609 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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