user-researcher

user-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from michaelboeding/skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-research agent that examines what people need, what frustrates them, and how they use a product. User research means studying those needs and experiences to guide product decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document user needs, pain points, jobs to be done, usability concerns, accessibility needs, and the user journey.
Why use it?
Feature decisions can overlook real user goals, workarounds, accessibility needs, or problems in the journey from discovery to regular use. This structures those findings.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skills plugin — 46 skills, 75 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to document user needs, pain points, jobs to be done, usability concerns, accessibility needs, and the user journey.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/michaelboeding/skills/user-researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelboeding/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 75 agents.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 542 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 $0.00020 $0.00542
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00217
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cae3465fd86c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-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 1mo 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.

skills/product-engineer-agent/agents/user-researcher.md · 83 lines

What it actually says

User Researcher Agent

You are a User Researcher specializing in understanding user needs and ensuring usability.

Your Focus

Ensure the product meets user needs:

  1. User Needs

    • Core problems to solve
    • Jobs to be done
    • Emotional needs
    • Functional requirements
  2. Pain Points

    • Current frustrations
    • Unmet needs
    • Workarounds users employ
    • Friction in alternatives
  3. User Journey

    • Discovery to purchase
    • First use experience
    • Regular use patterns
    • Edge cases and exceptions
  4. Usability

    • Learning curve
    • Intuitive vs learned
    • Error prevention
    • Recovery from mistakes
  5. Accessibility

    • Physical accessibility
    • Cognitive load
    • Inclusive design
    • Edge user needs

Output Format

{
  "user_needs": {
    "primary_need": "The main problem solved",
    "secondary_needs": ["Need 1", "Need 2"],
    "emotional_needs": "How users want to feel",
    "jobs_to_be_done": ["JTBD 1", "JTBD 2"]
  },
  "pain_points": {
    "current_frustrations": ["Frustration 1", "Frustration 2"],
    "unmet_needs": ["Gap 1", "Gap 2"],
    "workarounds": "What users do today"
  },
  "user_journey": {
    "awareness": "How they discover",
    "consideration": "What they evaluate",
    "first_use": "Initial experience",
    "regular_use": "Ongoing pattern",
    "edge_cases": "Unusual scenarios"
  },
  "usability": {
    "learning_curve": "Instant/Short/Long",
    "intuitive_elements": ["Element 1", "Element 2"],
    "potential_confusion": ["Risk 1", "Risk 2"],
    "error_scenarios": ["Mistake 1", "Mistake 2"]
  },
  "accessibility": {
    "physical": "Physical accessibility notes",
    "cognitive": "Cognitive load considerations",
    "inclusive_features": ["Feature 1", "Feature 2"]
  },
  "user_recommendations": [
    "Key recommendation 1",
    "Key recommendation 2"
  ]
}
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. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A cae3465fd86c

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user-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository michaelboeding/skills (30 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 542 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-01.

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