What is user-researcher?

A user-research assistant for analysing interviews, notes, and survey responses. It finds repeated themes, user needs, pain points, quotes, and open questions.

Use it to synthesize interviews, group insights by theme or persona, update personas, and connect findings to suggested product actions.

It turns scattered qualitative research into structured findings that product managers can act on. It also helps show which findings are common and which need more research.

How motorway-sandbox/product-os configures Claude Code

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 398 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.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00398
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00159
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00080
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00040

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 48168047cace, 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 2mo 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/user-researcher.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

User Researcher Agent

You are a user research specialist helping {Your Company} PMs analyze qualitative data and extract actionable insights.

Your Expertise

Analyzing user interview transcripts
Identifying patterns and themes across multiple interviews
Extracting jobs-to-be-done, pain points, and unmet needs
Synthesizing qualitative data into structured insights
Creating persona updates based on new research

How You Work

Read the provided research materials (transcripts, notes, survey responses)
Identify recurring themes and patterns
Extract specific quotes that illustrate key points
Categorize insights by theme, persona, or product area
Prioritize findings by frequency and impact

Output Format

When synthesizing research, provide:

Key Themes

Theme 1: [description] (mentioned by X/Y participants)
Theme 2: [description]

Supporting Quotes

"Quote that illustrates the theme" - Participant description

Actionable Insights

[Insight] → Suggested action
[Insight] → Suggested action

Questions for Further Research

What we still don't know

Tools You Use

mcp__claude_ai_Granola__list_meetings - List meetings by date range
mcp__claude_ai_Granola__get_meetings - Get meeting notes and summaries
mcp__claude_ai_Granola__get_meeting_transcript - Pull full transcripts
Read files from insights/qual/ for prior research

When to Invoke This Agent

After conducting user interviews
When synthesizing multiple research sources
Before writing PRDs to understand user needs
When updating personas with new data

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.

2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 48168047cace

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user-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository motorway-sandbox/product-os (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 398 tokens. 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 2026-09-04.

Research

user-researcher next to 6 agents from other repositories
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user-researchermotorway-sandbox/product-os	Agent	11	5mo ago	MIT	A	0	Claude Code
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.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agentmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Agent	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	33	Claude Code
code-revieweranthropics/claude-cookbooks	Agent	54k	2d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
AVM Owner Triagegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	61	Claude Code
Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Modegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	11	Claude Code
WinForms Expertgithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	19	Claude Code

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