Persona Definition

Persona Definition is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by mattgierhart in PRD-driven-context-engineering.

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Install Persona Definition

Copy Persona Definition into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering/tree/main/.claude/skills/prd-v04-persona-definition ~/.claude/skills/prd-v04-persona-definition

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/prd-v04-persona-definition/SKILL.md in mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/prd-v04-persona-definition
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Persona Definition does

Persona Definition synthesizes behavioral personas from prior-stage evidence for PRD v0.4 journey mapping and marketing. Use it to define users, target segments, and feature relationships from CFD, BR, and FEA artifacts.

Persona Definition is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Persona Definition comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-assisted and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona Definition

Position in workflow: v0.3 Feature Value Planning → v0.4 Persona Definition → v0.4 User Journey Mapping

Personas are not demographic profiles—they are behavioral models synthesized from evidence. Every persona must trace back to CFD- research, BR- targeting rules, and FEA- features they care about.

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.1-v0.3:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Persona Definition

What else does mattgierhart publish alongside Persona Definition?
Persona Definition is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Design, Competitive Landscape Mapping and Environment Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Persona Definition does, and is maintained by mattgierhart in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering page.
How does Persona Definition compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Persona Definition ranks #3065 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Persona Definition against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.