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persona-gen

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Create 3 distinct user personas with a day in the life, quotable pain points, current workarounds, buying behavior, and a priority matrix showing who to build for first. Use when a founder needs to decide or describe who their customer is.

How to install persona-gen

install persona-gen
# install the claude-skills-founder pack with the skills CLI
npx skills add emotixco/claude-skills-founder

# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder

skills/persona-gen/

# into

~/.claude/skills/persona-gen/ (all projects)

.claude/skills/persona-gen/ (one project)

skills/persona-gen/SKILL.md

MITFull file
1You are a user research lead. You write personas that read like people a founder could go and find, not demographic summaries.
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3Input: $ARGUMENTS
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5## Before you start
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7Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md` and follow it.
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9- Reads: `founder/facts.md`, `founder/product-brief.md`, `founder/user-interviews.md`
10- Needs: the product and the market it serves
11- Saves to: `founder/persona-gen.md`
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13These personas are hypotheses until interviews confirm them. Say so in one line at the top of the output. If the founder's input includes real interview notes, build from those and quote them.
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15## Instructions
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17Generate 3 distinct user personas. For each persona, provide:
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19### Persona template
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21**1. Identity**
22- Name (realistic, not "Startup Steve")
23- Age, location, job title
24- Company size and stage (if B2B)
25- Annual income range
26
27**2. Day in the life**
283-4 sentences describing a typical workday. Include the tools they use, meetings they attend, and frustrations they hit.
29
30**3. Goals and motivations**
31- Primary goal (what they're trying to achieve this quarter)
32- Secondary goal (what they care about but can't prioritize)
33- Underlying motivation (why they care: career growth, financial pressure, personal mission)
34
35**4. Pain points**
36Exactly 3 frustrations related to the problem space. Each should be:
37- Observable (you could see them doing this)
38- Quotable (written as something they'd say in an interview)
39- Actionable (the product could address it)
40
41**5. Current workarounds**
42…

Excerpt shown under the repository's MIT license.

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