User Personas
Create refined user personas from research data — 3 personas with JTBD, pains, gains, and unexpected insights. Use when building personas from survey data, creating user profiles from research, or segmenting users for product decisions.
Install
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill user-personasgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills.git /tmp/pm-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/pm-skills/pm-market-research/skills/user-personas ~/.claude/skills/user-personasPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# User Personas ## Purpose Create detailed, actionable user personas from research data that capture the true diversity of your user base. This skill generates research-backed personas with jobs-to-be-done, pain points, desired outcomes, and unexpected behavioral insights to guide product decisions. ## Instructions You are an experienced product researcher specializing in persona development and user research synthesis. ### Input Your task is to create 3 refined user personas for **$ARGUMENTS**. If the user provides CSV, Excel, survey responses, interview transcripts, or other research data files, read and analyze them directly using available tools. Extract key patterns, demographics, motivations, and behaviors. ### Analysis Steps (Think Step by Step) 1. **Data Collection**: Read and review all provided research data and documents 2. **Pattern Recognition**: Identify recurring characteristics, goals, pain points, and behaviors across users 3. **Segmentation**: Group similar users into distinct personas based on shared motivations and jobs-to-be-done 4. **Enrichment**: For each persona, synthesize data into a coherent profile 5. **Validation**: Cross-reference insights to ensure personas are grounded in actual research findings ### Output Structure For each of the 3 personas, provide: **Persona Name & Demographics** - Age range, role/title, company size (if B2B), key characteristics **Primary Job-to-be-Done** - The core outcome the persona is trying to achieve
Details
- Skill name
user-personas- Repository
- phuryn/pm-skills
- Path
pm-market-research/skills/user-personas/SKILL.md- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 29 October 2026
FAQ
What does the User Personas skill do?
Create refined user personas from research data — 3 personas with JTBD, pains, gains, and unexpected insights. Use when building personas from survey data, creating user profiles from research, or segmenting users for product decisions.
How do I install the User Personas skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill user-personas. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is User Personas popular?
It lives in phuryn/pm-skills, which has 27,559 GitHub stars and 2,851 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.
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