analysis-design

analysis-design is a skill for Claude Code from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst. It costs 326 tokens per session (3,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow that turns a vague business question or hunch into a testable hypothesis, checks possible causes, and produces an investigation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan investigations such as finding why conversion changed or testing whether a product change affected purchases.
Why use it?
It helps prevent teams from starting analysis without a clear question, decision, or way to test the idea.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It helps plan investigations such as finding why conversion changed or testing whether a product change affected purchases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/analysis-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst --skill analysis-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 326 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,255 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 $0.00326 $0.03255
Opus 5 $0.00163 $0.01628
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00651
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00326

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6bfdd40d5ae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analysis-design 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 2d 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/skills/analysis-design/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Analysis Design

Trigger: /analysis-design, "design an analysis for...", "I think X caused Y", "help me investigate..." Type: Orchestrator — runs a multi-agent pipeline


Purpose

Takes a vague analytical hunch, stakeholder request, or business question and produces a rigorous, stakeholder-ready analysis plan through a multi-stage pipeline. Chains three specialized agents: Hypothesis Sharpener → Confound Scanner → (optional) Feedback Synthesizer.

This skill orchestrates the full lifecycle: hunch → testable hypothesis → threat assessment → investigation plan → V1 execution → feedback synthesis → V2 redesign.


When to Use

  • A PM has a hunch but no plan: "I think removing the widget caused repeat purchases to drop"
  • A vague request lands: "Can you look into why conversion dropped?"
  • An analysis needs redesign after stakeholder feedback: "Here's V1 and the comments — help me build V2"
  • Before starting any major investigation (prevents wasted work)

Inputs

Input Required Source Description
{{HUNCH}} Yes User The vague hypothesis, business question, or analytical request
{{DATA_PATH}} No User or auto-detect Path to relevant dataset(s). If not provided, uses active dataset from .knowledge/active.yaml
{{AUDIENCE}} No User Who will consume the analysis (e.g., "VP of Product", "exec team", "cross-functional leads")
{{V1_FINDINGS}} No User or working/ Path to V1 analysis output — triggers V2 redesign flow
{{FEEDBACK}} No User Stakeholder feedback (comments, meeting transcript, Slack thread) — triggers Feedback Synthesizer
{{URGENCY}} No User Timeline constraint (e.g., "need by EOD", "board meeting Friday"). Affects investigation depth.

First action: architecture preview

Open by printing the preview below so the user sees the stages before Stage 1 runs.

Preview Format

If {{V1_FINDINGS}} or {{FEEDBACK}} is provided (V2 redesign scenario):

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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. 2d ago First seen · 308 lines · 326 tokens per session scan A 6bfdd40d5ae5

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analysis-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst (298 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 326 tokens to every session and 3,255 once invoked, about $0.0016 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 2026-09-12.

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