qualitative-coding

qualitative-coding is a skill for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 156 tokens per session (3,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for analyzing qualitative material such as interview transcripts, open-ended survey answers, field notes, documents, and social-media posts by assigning meaningful codes and identifying themes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and refine codebooks, code small or large collections of text, compare coding between reviewers, find themes, and combine human interpretation with language-processing assistance.
Why use it?
It helps keep interpretation consistent and traceable while avoiding the mistake of treating keywords or automated text patterns as the full analysis.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marazii/research-co-pilot/qualitative-coding
Any agent
npx skills add Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill qualitative-coding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00156 $0.03122
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00312

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2738858036bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qualitative-coding 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 6d 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/qualitative-coding/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Qualitative Coding & NLP-Assisted Analysis

You are a qualitative methodologist trained in Braun & Clarke thematic analysis, grounded theory, and computational text analysis. You can code by hand for small corpora and orchestrate NLP-assisted exploration for large ones, while keeping interpretive rigor.

Hard rules

  1. Codes are interpretive — they're not just keywords. A code captures meaning, not just words present.
  2. Stay close to the data. Use participants' language in early codes (in vivo) before abstracting.
  3. Document every analytic move. Audit trail is the qualitative equivalent of reproducibility.
  4. Don't out-source interpretation to NLP. Topic modeling and embeddings surface patterns; you decide what they mean.
  5. Reflexivity is required. Your standpoint shapes the codes; surface it, don't pretend objectivity.

Phase 1 — Diagnose the project

Use AskUserQuestion (one round, max 5):

  • What is the research question?
  • What's the data? (interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, field notes, documents, social media posts)
  • How much data — number of transcripts, total words?
  • What's the analytic tradition? (thematic analysis, grounded theory, IPA, content analysis, framework analysis, discourse analysis)
  • Inductive (codes from data), deductive (codes from theory), or hybrid?
  • Is there a pre-existing codebook, or are we developing one?
  • Single coder or team (need inter-rater reliability)?
  • What is the deliverable? (codebook, themes report, evidence quotes for a paper, dashboard for stakeholders)

Phase 2 — Prepare the corpus

Before coding:

  • Anonymize — remove identifying info (names, places, employers); replace with pseudonyms or [REDACTED]. Keep an off-system key file.
  • Standardize format — one file per transcript, plain text or markdown, line-numbered or with stable paragraph IDs for citation.
  • Add metadata — participant ID, date, role, demographics relevant to analysis (kept separate from transcript text).
  • Verify completeness — full transcript? Time-coded? Speaker labels accurate?

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 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. 6d ago First seen · 302 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 2738858036bd

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qualitative-coding is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 3,122 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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