data-synthesis

data-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from memi-design/design-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning interview notes, observations, numbers, and other research into organised findings. It explains methods such as affinity mapping, which groups related observations, thematic analysis, and comparing evidence from different sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to group raw research, identify themes, combine qualitative and quantitative evidence, assess the strength of insights, and turn findings into design or product requirements.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of producing a summary that does not change any decision and helps separate strong findings from gaps or weak evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to group raw research, identify themes, combine qualitative and quantitative evidence, assess the strength of insights, and turn findings into design or product requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/memi-design/design-skills/data-synthesis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add memi-design/design-skills --skill data-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/memi-design/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,531 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 $0.00029 $0.02531
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01265
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6780b173a26e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-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 10d 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/data-synthesis/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data Synthesis -- Research Intelligence

Skill pack for transforming raw research data into structured insights. Covers affinity mapping, thematic analysis, quantitative aggregation, triangulation, insight scoring, gap analysis, and integration with the Memoire research pipeline.

Core Loop

COLLECT RAW DATA --> ORGANIZE --> CODE --> THEME --> TRIANGULATE --> SCORE --> OUTPUT INSIGHTS

Every synthesis pass must produce actionable insights, not summaries. An insight is a non-obvious finding that changes a design decision.

Affinity Mapping Methodology

What It Is

A bottom-up clustering technique. Individual observations (sticky notes, quotes, data points) are grouped by natural similarity until themes emerge.

Process

Step Action Output
1. Harvest Extract individual observations from raw data. One fact per unit. 50-300 discrete data points
2. Spread Lay all data points out without grouping. Randomize order. Ungrouped pool
3. Cluster Silently group related points. Move items that feel similar together. 8-20 raw clusters
4. Label Name each cluster with a descriptive header that captures the shared meaning. Named clusters
5. Supergroup Group clusters into 3-6 high-level themes. Theme hierarchy
6. Prioritize Rank themes by frequency, severity, and opportunity. Prioritized theme map

Rules

  • One observation per data point -- never combine two findings into one note
  • Group by meaning, not by source (do not cluster "all interview 3 data" together)
  • If a cluster has more than 15 items, split it
  • If a cluster has fewer than 3 items, consider merging or flagging as an outlier
  • Relabel clusters after regrouping -- initial labels often drift from final content

In Memoire

memi research from-stickies       # Pull sticky notes from Figma canvas
memi research synthesize           # Run affinity mapping + thematic analysis
memi research report               # Generate structured insight report

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 10d ago First seen · 285 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6780b173a26e

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data-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,531 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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