persona-lab

persona-lab is a skill for Claude Code from valsecchi75/project-scaffolder. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-testing skill that simulates people with different backgrounds trying a user interface or user flow through its code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Test new or changed screens, flows, and user-facing text with simulated low-tech and high-tech users.
Why use it?
It can reveal confusing labels and navigation problems that ordinary code review may miss, though it cannot inspect rendered visual details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the project-scaffolder plugin — 7 skills, 19 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Test new or changed screens, flows, and user-facing text with simulated low-tech and high-tech users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/valsecchi75/project-scaffolder/persona-lab
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 valsecchi75/project-scaffolder --skill persona-lab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/valsecchi75/project-scaffolder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-scaffolder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 19 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 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 $0.00066 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00140

Measured 10d ago against content hash 179acc5be77b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

persona-lab 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 10d 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-lab/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona-Lab — The Simulated Focus Group

Overview

Persona-Lab simulates diverse end-user profiles testing the implemented feature, catching UX problems that code review misses. It operates at code-level understanding — reading widget/component code, evaluating text labels, tracing navigation flows — not rendered pixels.

Core principle: If a low-tech user can't complete the flow, the implementation isn't done.

Important limitation: Persona-Lab cannot see rendered UI. It evaluates UX through code structure, text content, and flow logic. Visual issues (alignment, color contrast, spacing) belong to QA or manual review.

Context Budget (v3)

Persona subagents receive ≤5k tokens of injected context (same cap as the Cortex specialist): task description, the UI/flow under test, relevant excerpt of wiki/ux pages if present, persona profile. Never inject full wiki pages — excerpts only.

When to Run

Task type Run Persona-Lab?
UI feature (new screen, flow) Yes — full 3-persona test
UI modification (copy, layout) Yes — 2 personas (low-tech + high-tech)
Backend/API (no UI) No
Infrastructure/devops No
Bug fix (UX-related) Yes — 1 persona matching bug reporter profile
--skip-persona flag No

Inputs from Cortex

Persona-Lab receives this context:

Input Source Purpose
Task description /task command What was implemented
Files changed (list) Specialist output Scope of change
Feature description wiki/product/features.md excerpt (if present) Feature context
UI flow context wiki/ux/ui-decisions.md excerpt (if present) Navigation patterns
Brand/tone rules wiki/branding.md excerpt (if present) Language expectations
Relevant widget code Changed UI files Actual implementation

Profile Generation

Read project context to generate relevant personas:

  • wiki/overview.md — target user description
  • wiki/ux/ui-decisions.md (if present) — UX principles
  • wiki/branding.md (if present) — tone and visual identity
  • wiki/product/features.md (if present) — feature context

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 10d ago First seen · 137 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 179acc5be77b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

persona-lab is a skill published in the GitHub repository valsecchi75/project-scaffolder (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,403 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 2026-08-31.

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