User Story Writer
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Writes user stories in Mike Cohn's format with Gherkin acceptance criteria, turning user needs into development-ready work with testable conditions.
Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns.
Install User Persona
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-persona --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .claude/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .claude/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-personaType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-persona --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .agents/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .agents/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-persona --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .cursor/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .cursor/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git --path design-research/skills/user-persona--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-persona --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .gemini/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .gemini/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-personaInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .github/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .github/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills user-persona --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/user-persona .opencode/skills/user-persona && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "user-persona" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/user-persona into .opencode/skills/user-persona/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "user-persona", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
user-persona- GitHub stars
- 2.9k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~601 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 299 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 107
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns.
- Works in 6 steps: Gather inputs: Confirm the product,… → Identify behavioral patterns: Analyze… → Define 2-4 personas — for each persona,… → …
- Decisions need a consistent user reference
- SKILL.md covers Context, Domain Context, Instructions and Further Reading
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
User Persona is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns. Use when decisions need a consistent user reference. For one session's emotional snapshot use empathy-map; for motivation framing use jobs-to-be-done.
Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Product & Project Management, covering User stories. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Decisions need a consistent user reference
- Tasks that involve User stories
Example prompts
- “/user-persona”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Gather inputs: Confirm the product, target audience, and available research data. Ask for clarification if anything is ambiguous.
- Identify behavioral patterns: Analyze the research data to find clusters of behaviors, motivations, and needs.
- Define 2-4 personas — for each persona, include
- Prioritize: Identify the primary persona (the one the design must satisfy first) and explain why.
- Highlight gaps: Note any research gaps that would strengthen the personas.
- Think step by step. Present personas in a clear, structured format. If the output is substantial, save it as a markdown document in the…
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
User Persona loads about 601 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 299 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 299 words, ~601 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/user-persona/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- user-persona
- description
- Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns. Use when decisions need a consistent user reference. For one session's emotional snapshot use `empathy-map`; for motivation framing use `jobs-to-be-done`.
User Persona
Create comprehensive user personas grounded in research data for product and UX design.
Context
You are a senior UX researcher helping a design team create user personas for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (research data, interview transcripts, survey results, analytics), read them first. If they mention a product URL, use web search to understand the product.
Domain Context
- Personas (Alan Cooper, About Face): Archetypical users based on behavioral patterns, not demographics alone.
- Each persona should feel like a real person the team can empathize with and design for.
- Personas should be grounded in actual research data, not assumptions.
- Include behavioral variables, goals (life goals, experience goals, end goals), and frustrations.
Instructions
The user will describe their product and available research data. Work through these steps:
- Gather inputs: Confirm the product, target audience, and available research data. Ask for clarification if anything is ambiguous.
- Identify behavioral patterns: Analyze the research data to find clusters of behaviors, motivations, and needs.
- Define 2-4 personas — for each persona, include:
- Name, photo description, and a one-line quote that captures their mindset
- Demographics: age range, occupation, tech comfort, relevant context
- Goals: what they want to achieve (functional, emotional, social)
- Frustrations: current pain points and unmet needs
- Behaviors: how they currently approach the problem
- Scenario: a brief day-in-the-life narrative
- Design implications: what this means for product decisions
- Prioritize: Identify the primary persona (the one the design must satisfy first) and explain why.
- Highlight gaps: Note any research gaps that would strengthen the personas.
- Think step by step. Present personas in a clear, structured format. If the output is substantial, save it as a markdown document in the user's workspace.
Further Reading
- About Face — Alan Cooper
- Lean UX — Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- Just Enough Research — Erika Hall
© Owl-Listener, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in design-research/skills/user-persona of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c
Used in 1 other repository
We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| User Story Writerdeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills | 7.2k | 2 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Ralph Tui Create Beadssubsy/ralph-tui | 2.5k | 1 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Agile Product Owneralirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 3 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ralph Tui Create Beads Rustsubsy/ralph-tui | 2.5k | 1 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| To Specbestofjs/bestofjs | 3.1k | 21 repos | ~757 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about User Persona
What does User Persona do?
Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns. User Persona is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Build research-grounded personas with goals, frustrations, and behavioural patterns.
When should I use User Persona?
User Persona fits situations like: decisions need a consistent user reference; tasks that involve User stories.
How do I install User Persona in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (design-research/skills/user-persona in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/user-persona in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install User Persona in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (design-research/skills/user-persona in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/user-persona in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use User Persona in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill user-persona -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/user-persona, .gemini/skills/user-persona, .github/skills/user-persona and .opencode/skills/user-persona in your project.
What does User Persona need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: User Persona is instructions for the agent only.
Does User Persona access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is User Persona safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does User Persona use?
User Persona is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does User Persona use?
About 601 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to User Persona?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with User Persona: User Story Writer (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars), Ralph Tui Create Beads (subsy/ralph-tui, 2.5k stars), Agile Product Owner (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and Ralph Tui Create Beads Rust (subsy/ralph-tui, 2.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains User Persona?
Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,871 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.
Source: Owl-Listener/designer-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.