recipe-persona

recipe-persona is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/nautilus. It costs 35 tokens per session (732 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A persona-writing guide for creating or updating evidence-based descriptions of user groups, their context, and the jobs they need to accomplish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create personas, incorporate interviews or surveys, and account for user roles, permissions, workflows, and business context.
Why use it?
It prevents personas from becoming unsupported profiles and keeps them tied to research, product decisions, and actual behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to create personas, incorporate interviews or surveys, and account for user roles, permissions, workflows, and business context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/nautilus/recipe-persona
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/nautilus --skill recipe-persona
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/nautilus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 732 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 $0.00035 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 6d ago against content hash e7bf0d830490, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/recipe-persona/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context: Create or update persona files with the evidence-backed distinctions, context, and jobs needed by current product decisions.

Required Skills [LOAD BEFORE EXECUTION]

  1. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] design-perspective — persona template and context criteria

Conditional Skills [LOAD WHEN TRIGGERED]

  • WHEN VPC, market, or viability evidence informs the persona: [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] business-context

Delegate code analysis when repository evidence can answer a current persona question.

Execution Decision Flow

1. Context Assessment

Input: Use the path or text supplied with the explicit skill invocation. If no input was supplied and the target cannot be inferred unambiguously, ask for it.

Situation Action
No personas exist Gather available user evidence and label unresolved assumptions
Personas exist, new data available Update existing personas with new evidence
Existing codebase Invoke codebase-analyzer when roles, permissions, or implemented workflows can change the persona
Post-interview / post-survey Update with new primary research

2. Research Gathering

From Existing Code (if applicable)

Invoke codebase-analyzer to identify:

  • User roles and permissions in the system
  • User-facing features and workflows
  • Data models related to users
  • Analytics/tracking events (if present)
From User Research

Gather the available data that can answer a current persona question:

  • Interview transcripts or summaries
  • Survey results
  • Support ticket patterns
  • Usage analytics
  • Market research (per business-context skill)
From VPC Analysis

Map Customer Profile from Value Proposition Canvas:

  • Customer jobs (functional, social, emotional)
  • Pains (frustrations, obstacles, risks)
  • Gains (required, expected, desired, unexpected)

3. Persona Drafting

Use design-perspective skill references/persona-template.md. Include only distinctions, context, jobs, pains, gains, and behavioral evidence that can change a current product decision. Mark each inference or assumption explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago Changed · +2 lines e7bf0d830490
  2. 11d ago First seen · 88 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a839e159b240

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recipe-persona is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/nautilus (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 732 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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