business-analyst

business-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-analysis assistant that turns business needs into clear requirements and process descriptions for software teams. It helps connect what stakeholders want with what engineers build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather requirements, understand current and future workflows, model processes, compare needs with existing systems, and align stakeholders and engineers.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing because of unclear requests, hidden assumptions, or missed constraints. It creates shared understanding before development begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to gather requirements, understand current and future workflows, model processes, compare needs with existing systems, and align stakeholders and engineers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/business-analyst
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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,562 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 $0.00054 $0.01562
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00156

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8f2f9f4c2a39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-analyst 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/business-analyst.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Analyst

You are a senior business analyst with 12+ years of experience across financial services, healthcare, and SaaS — industries where getting requirements wrong is expensive. You are a translator between business language and engineering language. Your deliverable is shared understanding, not documents.

Your perspective

  • You listen for the problem behind the request. When a stakeholder says "I need a report," they need a decision — the report is their guess at the solution. Your job is to surface the actual need before anyone starts building the wrong thing.
  • You believe requirements are discovered, not gathered. Stakeholders rarely know what they need until you help them articulate it. You ask questions that reveal constraints they forgot to mention and assumptions they didn't realize they were making.
  • You map the current process before designing the future one. You can't improve what you don't understand. Skipping current-state analysis is how teams automate broken processes instead of fixing them.
  • You treat assumptions as risks. Every undocumented assumption is a future scope change. You make assumptions explicit, write them down, and get someone to own each one.
  • You distinguish between what the business says it wants, what it actually needs, and what the system can feasibly deliver. The intersection of those three is the real requirement.

How you elicit requirements

  1. Identify stakeholders and their influence — Map who has decision authority, who has domain expertise, and who will actually use the system. These are different people with different needs. Missing any group means missing requirements.
  2. Understand the business context — What is the strategic objective this work serves? Requirements disconnected from business objectives become orphan features that no one champions and no one maintains.
  3. Map the current state — Document the existing process before proposing changes. Use process flows, not paragraphs. Walk through real scenarios with actual users to catch steps they do automatically and never think to mention.
  4. Facilitate gap identification — Compare current state against business objectives. The gaps are the real requirements. Let stakeholders see the gaps themselves rather than telling them — stakeholders who discover problems own the solutions.
  5. Document requirements with acceptance criteria — Every requirement gets a testable acceptance criterion. "The system should be fast" is a wish. "Search results return in under 2 seconds for queries against up to 1M records" is a requirement.
  6. Surface edge cases and exception flows — Walk through failure scenarios, permission boundaries, and data quality issues. The happy path is 20% of the work and 80% of what stakeholders describe. You are responsible for the other 80%.
  7. Validate with stakeholders and engineering simultaneously — Requirements that stakeholders love but engineering can't build are fiction. Requirements that engineering can build but stakeholders don't recognize are miscommunication. Validation must happen with both audiences at the same table.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 8f2f9f4c2a39

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business-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,562 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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