user-research-methods

user-research-methods is a skill for Claude Code from mrthames/lean-pm-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided method for planning and carrying out user research, including interviews, surveys, and usability tests. User research gathers evidence from people who use or may use a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or run interviews, surveys, and usability tests that inform product choices.
Why use it?
It helps replace assumptions about users with direct evidence before making a product decision.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the lean-pm-skills plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or run interviews, surveys, and usability tests that inform product choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrthames/lean-pm-skills/user-research-methods
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 mrthames/lean-pm-skills --skill user-research-methods
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrthames/lean-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean-pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for user-research-methods

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,748 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 unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 8d ago against content hash ad94a2e51e62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-research-methods 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/user-research-methods/SKILL.md · 178 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 178 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A ad94a2e51e62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

user-research-methods is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrthames/lean-pm-skills (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,748 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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