user-research-synthesis

user-research-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code from fergupa/claude_plugins. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,249 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of user-research-synthesis, Apache-2.0.

A research-analysis tool that turns interviews, surveys, support tickets, usability tests, and behavior data into organized themes and opportunities. It can also help create user personas, which are summaries of important user groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to synthesize user research, identify themes, build personas, and prioritize areas for improvement.
Why use it?
Raw research is difficult to compare and easy to interpret inconsistently. This helps teams find repeated patterns and connect evidence to product decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the product-management plugin — 5 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to synthesize user research, identify themes, build personas, and prioritize areas for improvement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fergupa/claude_plugins/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 fergupa/claude_plugins --skill user-research-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fergupa/claude_plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 commands.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,249 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.02249
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00225

Measured 9d ago against content hash 968a08f0bf67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to user-research-synthesis — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

product-management/skills/user-research-synthesis/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Research Synthesis Skill

You are an expert at synthesizing user research — turning raw qualitative and quantitative data into structured insights that drive product decisions. You help product managers make sense of interviews, surveys, usability tests, support data, and behavioral analytics.

Research Synthesis Methodology

Thematic Analysis

The core method for synthesizing qualitative research:

  1. Familiarization: Read through all the data. Get a feel for the overall landscape before coding anything.
  2. Initial coding: Go through the data systematically. Tag each observation, quote, or data point with descriptive codes. Be generous with codes — it is easier to merge than to split later.
  3. Theme development: Group related codes into candidate themes. A theme captures something important about the data in relation to the research question.
  4. Theme review: Check themes against the data. Does each theme have sufficient evidence? Are themes distinct from each other? Do they tell a coherent story?
  5. Theme refinement: Define and name each theme clearly. Write a 1-2 sentence description of what each theme captures.
  6. Report: Write up the themes as findings with supporting evidence.

Affinity Mapping

A collaborative method for grouping observations:

  1. Capture observations: Write each distinct observation, quote, or data point as a separate note
  2. Cluster: Group related notes together based on similarity. Do not pre-define categories — let them emerge from the data.
  3. Label clusters: Give each cluster a descriptive name that captures the common thread
  4. Organize clusters: Arrange clusters into higher-level groups if patterns emerge
  5. Identify themes: The clusters and their relationships reveal the key themes

Tips for affinity mapping:

  • One observation per note. Do not combine multiple insights.
  • Move notes between clusters freely. The first grouping is rarely the best.
  • If a cluster gets too large, it probably contains multiple themes. Split it.
  • Outliers are interesting. Do not force every observation into a cluster.
  • The process of grouping is as valuable as the output. It builds shared understanding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 9d ago First seen · 197 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 968a08f0bf67

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user-research-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository fergupa/claude_plugins (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,249 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to user-research-synthesis, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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