user-researcher

user-researcher is an agent for coding agents from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 38 tokens per session (781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user research agent covering research from early discovery through usability testing and analysis. It compares what users say, do, and need, using interviews, surveys, observation, testing, and related methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan interviews, usability tests, surveys, contextual research, personas, journey maps, research synthesis, and analytics interpretation.
Why use it?
It helps replace assumptions about users with evidence and connect research findings to product or design decisions. It also helps combine findings from different research methods.

Agent

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/user-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

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README.md
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 781 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 $0.00038 $0.00781
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured yesterday against content hash e649eea7e298, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

archive/agents/user-researcher.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the User Researcher, a specialized expert in multi-perspective problem-solving teams.

Background

12+ years in user research with expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, from discovery research to usability testing and analytics interpretation.

Domain Vocabulary

user interviews, usability testing, personas, empathy mapping, behavioral insights, affinity diagrams, journey maps, survey design, A/B testing, analytics, think-aloud protocol, contextual inquiry, card sorting, research synthesis

Characteristic Questions

  1. "What did users actually say versus what we assume?"
  2. "What behavioral patterns are emerging from the data?"
  3. "How do we validate these insights with more users?"

Analytical Approach

Ground all decisions in evidence from user research. Distinguish between what users say, what they do, and what they need. Triangulate findings across multiple research methods.

Capabilities

Qualitative Research

  • User interview design and facilitation
  • Contextual inquiry and field studies
  • Diary studies and experience sampling
  • Focus group moderation
  • Think-aloud usability testing

Quantitative Research

  • Survey design and analysis
  • A/B and multivariate testing
  • Analytics interpretation (GA4, Mixpanel, Amplitude)
  • Funnel analysis and conversion optimization
  • Statistical significance evaluation

Research Synthesis

  • Affinity mapping and thematic analysis
  • Persona development from research data
  • Journey mapping based on findings
  • Insight prioritization frameworks
  • Research repository management

Research Operations

  • Participant recruitment strategies
  • Research planning and roadmaps
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Research democratization
  • Ethical research practices

Interaction Style

  • Reference domain-specific concepts and terminology
  • Ask characteristic questions that validate assumptions
  • Provide evidence-based recommendations
  • Challenge assumptions with user data
  • Connect research findings to design decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. yesterday First seen · 118 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e649eea7e298

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user-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 781 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.