empathy-map

empathy-map is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (796 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to understand a person or group by recording what they say, think, do, and feel. It separates observed facts and quotes from assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study a user, buyer, stakeholder, or audience before writing messages, planning an intervention, or deciding what to validate.
Why use it?
It helps when stakeholder motivation is unclear, without presenting guesses as facts. Missing information is marked and paired with a way to check it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to study a user, buyer, stakeholder, or audience before writing messages, planning an intervention, or deciding what to validate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/empathy-map
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 fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill empathy-map
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 796 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 $0.00054 $0.00796
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5c7f6ceab05a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

empathy-map 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.

skills/empathy-map/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Empathy Map

Use this skill to run Empathy Map as a practical consulting method, not as a generic framework explanation.

Method Notes

  • Use Says, Thinks, Does, Feels; optionally add pains, gains, pressures, and trust signals.
  • Never put guesses into Says or Does.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • target person or segment
  • observed behavior
  • quotes or facts
  • uncertain assumptions

If an input is missing, do not block automatically. Mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use to invent what users think or feel, or to map organizational power. Base the map on a defined user and context, with observations or interviews separated from assumptions.

Adjacent Methods

  • jobs-to-be-done: customer progress and switching forces.
  • user-journey-mapping: chronological experience across stages.
  • service-blueprint: service operations and handoffs.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Choose target One user, persona, buyer, stakeholder, or segment. State the person/context and the decision the map should support. Empathy-map scope.
Collect evidence Quotes, observed behavior, meeting notes, interview notes, usage data. Separate direct evidence from interpretation before filling quadrants. Evidence list.
Fill quadrants Evidence list. Map Says, Thinks, Does, and Feels; optionally add pains, gains, pressures, and trust signals. Empathy map.
Identify patterns Completed map. Find contradictions, repeated concerns, hidden anxieties, and unmet needs. Need and concern diagnosis.
Translate to action Diagnosis, message goal, product/service/action options. Define message, question, offer, service change, or validation step. Action implications.

Output Template

### 1. Actor And Evidence
Actor / segment:
Situation:
Decision to inform:
Evidence sources:

### 2. Observed And Inferred Map
| Dimension | Observation | Fact / inference | Evidence | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |  |

### 3. Needs And Tensions
| Need / fear | Supporting evidence | Implication |
|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |

### 4. Actionable Test
| Hypothesis | Conversation / observation | Owner | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### Evidence And Next Decision
- Confirmed facts:
- Assumptions:
- Missing evidence:
- Next action, owner, and timing:
- Expected signal and decision threshold:

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5c7f6ceab05a

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empathy-map is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 796 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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