product-ux-research

product-ux-research is a skill for Claude Code from kinhluan/skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of user-research methods for understanding people who use a product, including personas, journey maps, usability tests, card sorting, and heuristic reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create research-based personas, map user journeys, test usability, organize information, and evaluate product interfaces.
Why use it?
It gives product teams structured ways to replace assumptions with evidence about users' goals, problems, and behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the kinhluan-skills plugin — 61 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create research-based personas, map user journeys, test usability, organize information, and evaluate product interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kinhluan/skills/product-ux-research
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 kinhluan/skills --skill product-ux-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kinhluan/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kinhluan-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,803 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 $0.00036 $0.02803
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01401
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00561
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00280

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7a802c5ef30a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-ux-research 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.

.agent-skills/product-ux-research/SKILL.md · 412 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 412 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product UX Research

User-centered research methods to understand needs, validate designs, and measure usability.

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs


1. User Personas

Persona Template

## Persona: [Name] — [Role/Identity]

### Demographics
- Age, location, income, education
- Job title, company size, industry

### Goals
- What are they trying to achieve?
- What does success look like for them?

### Pains & Frustrations
- What blocks them from achieving goals?
- What workarounds do they currently use?

### Behaviors
- Daily routines related to the problem
- Tools they currently use
- How they make decisions

### JTBD
"When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [expected outcome]."

### Quote
"[Direct quote from interview that captures their mindset]"

Persona Creation Process

1. Interview 8-12 target users
2. Identify patterns in goals, pains, behaviors
3. Group into 2-4 persona archetypes
4. Validate with quantitative data (survey)
5. Share with team and keep visible

Rules:

  • Base on real data, not assumptions
  • Focus on behaviors and goals, not demographics
  • Keep to 2-4 personas (more = confusion)
  • Update every 6-12 months

2. Journey Mapping

Journey Map Template

Stage:       Awareness → Consideration → Onboarding → First Value → Regular Use → Advocacy
            ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User Action: Sees ad   → Reads reviews → Signs up   → Completes   → Uses core   → Refers
                                                  onboarding    feature       friend

Emotion:     😐 Curious → 😕 Skeptical → 😃 Excited → 😰 Confused → 😊 Satisfied → 🤩 Enthusiastic

Touchpoint:  Social    → Landing page → Email      → In-app      → Dashboard   → Share modal
             media       → Blog post    confirm      tutorial

Pain Point:  —         → "Is this     → Form too   → Can't find  → Missing     → No incentive
                            different?"  long         key feature   feature X

Opportunity: —         → Case study   → Social     → Interactive → Feature     → Referral
                            with ROI     login        guide         request       rewards

Read the full file on GitHub · 412 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. 11d ago First seen · 412 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7a802c5ef30a

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product-ux-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository kinhluan/skills (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,803 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 2026-08-31.

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