Overview
user-personas is an open-source integrations skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by phuryn. Its author describes it as: “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…”. The project has 25k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skills`.
What user-personas does
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.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for user-personas is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Instructions
- Input
- Analysis Steps (Think Step by Step)
- Output Structure
- Best Practices
- Further Reading
Installation
Add user-personas to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
user-personas is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in phuryn/pm-skills, an established project with 25,392 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does user-personas 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 user-personas?
- Run /plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills before installing.
- Is user-personas free to use?
- Yes. user-personas is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does user-personas work with?
- user-personas lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does user-personas come from?
- user-personas ships inside phuryn/pm-skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 25,392 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.