user-research-synthesis

user-research-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code from aroyburman-codes/pm-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning interviews, surveys, feedback, support tickets, app reviews, or usage data into organized user insights. It groups repeated themes, problems, unmet needs, positive experiences, and surprises.

In plain words
What is it for?
Organizing research sources, coding recurring themes, comparing user groups, and preparing reports with pain points, unmet needs, bright spots, frequencies, sentiment, and example quotes.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding patterns in scattered user research. It also gives teams a consistent way to describe how often themes appear and what users said.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Organizing research sources, coding recurring themes, comparing user groups, and preparing reports with pain points, unmet needs, bright spots, frequencies, sentiment, and example quotes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills/user-research-synthesis
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aroyburman-codes/pm-skills --skill user-research-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00040 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 11d ago against content hash ded9d388c105, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-research-synthesis 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 11d 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.

skills/user-research-synthesis/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Research Synthesis Skill

Turn raw user research data (interviews, surveys, feedback, support tickets) into structured, actionable insights.

When to Use

  • User has interview notes and needs to synthesize findings
  • User has survey results to analyze
  • User wants to identify patterns across user feedback
  • User says /user-research-synthesis followed by research data
  • Any time qualitative or quantitative user data needs structure

Framework: Research Synthesis (5 Steps)

Step 1: Organize Raw Data

  • Source type: Interviews / Surveys / Support tickets / App reviews / Usage data
  • Sample size: How many data points?
  • User segments: Who was included? Any notable gaps?
  • Timeframe: When was this data collected?

Step 2: Code & Theme

Identify recurring themes across the data:

Theme Frequency Sentiment Example Quote
[Theme 1] X of Y participants Positive/Negative/Mixed "..."
[Theme 2] X of Y participants "..."

Group themes into categories:

  • Pain Points: What's frustrating or broken
  • Unmet Needs: What users want but don't have
  • Bright Spots: What's working well (don't break these)
  • Surprises: Unexpected findings

Step 3: Prioritize Insights

For each insight, assess:

  • Prevalence: How many users mentioned this? (1 = rare, 5 = universal)
  • Severity: How painful is this? (1 = minor annoyance, 5 = deal-breaker)
  • Actionability: Can we do something about this? (1 = hard, 5 = clear path)

Priority Score = Prevalence x Severity x Actionability

Step 4: Generate Recommendations

For the top 3-5 insights:

  • Insight: Clear statement of what we learned
  • Evidence: Supporting data points and quotes
  • Implication: What this means for the product
  • Recommendation: Specific next step (build, test, investigate further)
  • Confidence: High / Medium / Low (based on data quality)

Step 5: Research Report

Executive Summary (2-3 sentences): What we studied, what we found, what we should do.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 11d ago First seen · 88 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ded9d388c105

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user-research-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository aroyburman-codes/pm-skills (25 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 816 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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