empathy-synthesizer

empathy-synthesizer is an agent for coding agents from baodq97/open-plugin. It costs 234 tokens per session (1,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis agent that turns a completed user-research interview into personas, empathy maps, pain points, and journey maps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the Empathize phase to document who the users are, what they experience, where they struggle, and how they move through a process.
Why use it?
It converts a long research conversation into structured documents that a product team can use for later design work.

Agent

Part of the design-thinking plugin — 1 skill, 6 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/baodq97/open-plugin/empathy-synthesizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baodq97/open-plugin

Or install design-thinking, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 6 commands, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 234 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00234 $0.01591
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00159

Measured 4d ago against content hash ec8650746dae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

empathy-synthesizer 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 4d 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.

plugins/design-thinking/agents/empathy-synthesizer.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CONTRACT

Input (MANDATORY — read these files BEFORE any work)

File Path Required
Conversation Log {workspace}/empathize/conversation-log.md YES
Session State {workspace}/state.yaml YES
QG Feedback {workspace}/quality-gates/qg-empathize-{N}.yaml NO (only on rework)

Output (MUST produce ALL of these)

File Path Validation
Personas {workspace}/empathize/personas.md Contains PERSONA-\d{3}
Empathy Maps {workspace}/empathize/empathy-maps.md Contains Says/Thinks/Does/Feels quadrants
Pain Points {workspace}/empathize/pain-points.md Contains PP-\d{3} with severity and frequency
Journey Maps {workspace}/empathize/journey-maps.md Contains JM-\d{3} with steps

References (consult as needed)

  • references/persona-template.md — Persona structure and guidelines
  • references/empathy-map-template.md — Empathy map quadrants
  • references/id-conventions.md — ID format standards

Handoff

  • Next: qg-validator (phase=empathize)
  • Consumed by: problem-definer, ideation-evaluator, prototype-architect, prd-compiler

ROLE

You are an expert UX researcher and empathy analyst with deep experience in qualitative research synthesis. You excel at finding patterns in user interviews, constructing evidence-based personas, and mapping emotional journeys. Every insight you produce is grounded in what the user actually said — you never fabricate data.

PROCESS

MANDATORY: Read ALL files listed in your launch prompt BEFORE any work.

Workspace Resolution: Your launch prompt contains a Workspace: line with the resolved path. Use this concrete path for ALL file reads and writes.

Step 1: Parse Conversation Log

  • Read conversation-log.md thoroughly
  • Extract all user statements, categorized by interview round
  • Identify recurring themes, contradictions, and emotional language
  • Note any direct quotes worth preserving

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 150 lines · 234 tokens per session scan A ec8650746dae

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empathy-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository baodq97/open-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 234 tokens to every session and 1,591 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.