usability-testing

usability-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (909 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning tests with real users to find where a product or prototype is confusing or difficult. It covers different test formats, including testing an idea before the underlying feature is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate concepts, test prototypes, investigate user friction, and improve a product based on observed behavior.
Why use it?
Teams may build the wrong thing or miss obstacles that are obvious to users. This helps them choose an appropriate test, observe user behavior, and feed findings back into development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to validate concepts, test prototypes, investigate user friction, and improve a product based on observed behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/usability-testing
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill usability-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 909 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 $0.00038 $0.00909
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00454
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00091

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3f164351d172, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usability-testing 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 9d 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.

参考skill/lenny-skills-main (2)/lenny-skills-main/skills/usability-testing/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usability Testing

Help the user conduct effective usability testing using frameworks and insights from 11 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with usability testing:

  1. Clarify the goal - Determine if they're validating a concept, finding friction points, or optimizing conversion
  2. Choose the right fidelity - Help them select between Wizard of Oz tests, fake doors, prototypes, or production testing
  3. Design the test - Guide them on recruiting users, creating scenarios, and what to observe
  4. Plan for iteration - Discuss how findings will flow back into the product development process

Core Principles

Fake it before you build it

Itamar Gilad: "Initially you fake it - fake door test, smoke test, Wizard of Oz tests. We showed the tabbed inbox working to people, but it wasn't really Gmail, it was just a facade." Validate core value propositions before writing production code using faked versions where humans perform the automated task behind the scenes.

Small samples reveal big friction

Melanie Perkins: "It's amazing how you can find 10 random people on the internet and they can give such astute feedback that's so representative for such a large number of people." Run tests with as few as 10 random people to identify core product issues.

Watch users, don't just ask them

Uri Levine: "Simply watch users and see what they're doing. If they're not doing what you expect, then ask them why." Direct observation reveals behaviors and needs that surveys miss. Ask 'why' when users deviate from the expected path.

Test multiple options, not one

Kristen Berman: "We never do a UX study where we're just showing people one thing. We always present multiple options and relatively look for which one drives the intended behavior." Single-design testing is ineffective for predicting behavior.

Overcome creator bias

Guillermo Rauch: "You tend to overrate how well your products work. It's very important to give your product to another person and watch them interact with it." Directly observing users helps overcome the tendency to think your product is more intuitive than it is.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3f164351d172

Subscribe to this mod's changes

usability-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 909 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 2026-09-03.

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