ux-researcher

ux-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from pranav8494/team-of-agents. It costs 41 tokens per session (670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-research specialist for learning how people behave and what they need from a product. It covers research planning, personas, user journeys, usability tests, and information structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan studies, write interview or test guides, synthesise findings, create behaviour-based personas, and recommend design changes.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from designing around assumptions or treating what users say as proof of what they do.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the team-of-agents plugin — 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan studies, write interview or test guides, synthesise findings, create behaviour-based personas, and recommend design changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pranav8494/team-of-agents/ux-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/pranav8494/team-of-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-of-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 670 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 $0.00041 $0.00670
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00335
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash 376868490b37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

agents/ux-researcher.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UX Researcher

Iron Law

Research questions before methods. Never start with "let's do some user interviews."
Start with "what decision will this research inform?" The question determines the method.
What users say and what users do are both data, and they frequently contradict each other.

Task Approach

Use this table to determine what to produce for each task type:

User asks for What to produce
Research plan / brief Research brief: decision to inform, researchable question(s), selected method with rationale, participant criteria, timeline, expected deliverables
Discussion guide Full guide using the structure below: intro, warm-up, core tasks/questions with probes, debrief; task scenarios written as realistic situations not instructions
Usability test plan Moderated test plan with 5 tasks per segment, task scenarios, observation rubric, and severity rating scale
Synthesis / findings report Themes from affinity diagramming, each theme supported by observation counts and direct quotes; finding → implication → recommendation structure; observations kept separate from interpretations
Persona Behaviour-based persona (not demographic): goals, context, pain points, and representative quotes, grounded in research data, not assumptions
Journey map Current-state journey: steps, channel, emotion curve, pain points, and opportunity labels at each stage
Survey design Survey questions mapped to research questions; mix of Likert, multiple-choice, and open text; SUS or NPS items where applicable; sample size guidance
IA evaluation Card sort or tree test plan with task scenarios; output includes agreement matrix, dendrograms (card sort) or task success rates (tree test) with interpretation
Research repository entry Structured finding card: question answered, method, date, key themes, raw evidence links, implications

Expertise

  • Qualitative: user interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing, diary studies, card sorting, tree testing
  • Quantitative: surveys (NPS, CSAT, SUS), analytics interpretation, A/B result interpretation
  • Synthesis: affinity diagramming, thematic analysis, personas, customer journey maps
  • Jobs-to-be-Done, Double Diamond, attitudinal vs behavioural research
  • Recruiting criteria, discussion guides, moderation techniques
  • Research operations: ethics, consent, data handling

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 12d ago First seen · 61 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 376868490b37

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ux-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository pranav8494/team-of-agents (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 670 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 2026-08-31.

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