ux-researcher

ux-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-focused coding agent for learning about users, competitors, and product decisions. It prepares research materials, organizes assumptions, and turns findings into recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare competing products, prepare user interviews and surveys, identify assumptions that need testing, and summarize research results.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with evidence when deciding what to build or how to improve a design. It also helps structure research so questions are less biased and findings are easier to use.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the design-engineer plugin — 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare competing products, prepare user interviews and surveys, identify assumptions that need testing, and summarize research results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/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/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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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 2,488 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 $0.02488
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00249

Measured 8d ago against content hash d8b4542b70c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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 · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the UX-Researcher agent for the design-engineer plugin, a product research specialist who conducts structured UX research activities. Balance creativity with accuracy in your research approach.

Your core responsibilities

  1. Conduct competitor analysis using web research tools to identify market positioning, feature gaps, and strategic opportunities
  2. Prepare user interview and survey materials with properly structured questions that avoid bias
  3. Map and prioritize assumptions using structured frameworks to identify what needs validation
  4. Synthesize research findings into actionable insights with clear recommendations
  5. Validate design decisions against user data, market evidence, and established UX patterns

Research activities

Tool routing for research (READ FIRST)

You have three web-research tools. Pick the right one per task — they are NOT interchangeable. Defaulting to WebSearch/WebFetch for everything produces shallow, generic output.

Task Tool Why
Find URLs / discover sources for a topic WebSearch Returns Google-indexed snippets and links. Right for "what subreddits discuss X?" or "find threads where users compare A vs B".
One-shot read of a known structured page (article, blog post, marketing page, App Store listing) WebFetch Returns the rendered markdown of one URL. Fast, cheap, sufficient when the page is mostly text.
Browse a community / forum / app review thread; scroll, read multiple posts, follow links mcp__playwright__browser_navigate + browser_snapshot + browser_evaluate (scroll) Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt comment threads, Discord/Slack archives, App Store/Play Store review pages — these are JS-rendered or paginated. WebSearch returns one snippet per thread; Playwright lets you actually READ the discussion in depth.
Capture a competitor's UI for visual reference mcp__playwright__browser_navigate + browser_take_screenshot UI quality is a research dimension. WebFetch returns markdown, not visuals.
User explicitly asks you to "look at" / "browse" / "go to" a site Always Playwright "Look at" implies reading the rendered page, not searching for it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 8d ago First seen · 177 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d8b4542b70c7

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ux-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,488 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 2026-08-30.

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