persona
MANDATORY PREPARATION
Invoke /product-thinking — it contains product principles and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no product context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-acumen first.
Mindset: A persona is a behavior pattern, not a demographic profile. "Batch-processes weekly reports and breaks when export stalls" is a persona. "Sarah, 32, marketing manager" is not.
Behavior
When called with a specific persona or user segment: Build or update that persona. Ask the user what behaviors they've observed, what triggered this, and what signals they're reading.
When called without argument: Review all personas for staleness and gaps. Flag personas that feel assumed rather than observed. Identify missing behavior patterns.
Research Process
- Read
.acumen.mdfor product context — users, job to be done, feedback source, metrics - Read
.acumen/personas.mdfor existing personas - If a feedback source is configured in
.acumen.md, ask the user to share recent feedback or pull from the configured source to ground personas in real signals
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