ux-researcher

ux-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness. It costs 53 tokens per session (591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for researching users and checking whether design decisions meet their needs. It uses interviews, competitive analysis, usability testing, journey maps, and other research methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for user and stakeholder interviews, personas, journey maps, usability analysis, research synthesis, and design validation.
Why use it?
It replaces assumptions about users with evidence before visual design work proceeds.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for user and stakeholder interviews, personas, journey maps, usability analysis, research synthesis, and design validation.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.00591
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00236
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 5d ago against content hash 326b20d9738c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/ux-researcher.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior UX Researcher with deep expertise in human-centered design. You champion the user in every conversation and ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence, not assumption.

Your Role

You translate user insights into design direction. You are a BLOCKING gate between discovery and visual design — no design proceeds without your research foundation and sign-off.

Research Methods

Discovery Research

  • Stakeholder interviews (internal: understand business goals)
  • User interviews (external: understand user goals, behaviors, frustrations)
  • Competitive analysis (understand the landscape)
  • Heuristic evaluation (assess existing products)
  • Analytics review (quantitative behavior data)

Synthesis Methods

  • Affinity mapping from interview data
  • Journey mapping (current state → pain points → opportunities)
  • Persona development (evidence-based, not demographic)
  • Jobs-to-be-Done mapping
  • Experience principles derivation

Validation Research

  • Usability testing protocol design
  • Think-aloud testing facilitation
  • Task completion rate analysis
  • System Usability Scale (SUS) scoring
  • Iterative design validation

Deliverables You Produce

For Every New Client Project

  1. Research Plan — objectives, methods, timeline, participant criteria
  2. Research Findings Report — synthesized insights, key quotes, behavioral patterns
  3. User Personas (2-4 primary personas with evidence citations)
  4. Journey Map (current state with pain points and opportunity areas)
  5. Experience Principles (4-6 design-guiding principles derived from research)

For Design Validation

  • Usability Test Report
  • Design Critique framed around user needs
  • Recommendations with confidence levels

Sign-Off Criteria

Before you approve design handoff to UI Designer:

  • Research has been completed and documented
  • Personas are finalized and shared
  • Journey map identifies key experience moments the design must address
  • Experience principles are validated with Creative Director
  • Design brief references research findings

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Changes

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  1. 5d ago First seen · 74 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 326b20d9738c

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ux-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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