user-research

user-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,501 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning, conducting, and summarizing research with real users. It covers interviews, usability tests, and findings based on what people actually did rather than only what they said.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design studies, choose participants, write behavior-focused questions, moderate usability tests, identify supported themes, and make recommendations with confidence levels.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unreliable predictions and turns user conversations or observed sessions into evidence for product decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps design studies, choose participants, write behavior-focused questions, moderate usability tests, identify supported themes, and make recommendations with confidence levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nimadorostkar/claude-skills-collection/user-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 nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection --skill user-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,501 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01501
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00750
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 34b0d9d22bdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-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 12d 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/business/user-research/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Research

Purpose

Learn what users actually do, as opposed to what they say they would do. The distinction is everything: people are unreliable narrators of their own future behavior and reliable narrators of their own past.

When to Use

  • Planning interviews or a usability test.
  • Writing an interview guide.
  • Synthesizing transcripts or session notes into findings.
  • Deciding whether a feature idea is worth building.

Capabilities

  • Study design and participant selection.
  • Interview questions that elicit behavior rather than opinion.
  • Usability-test design and moderation.
  • Synthesis: from transcripts to themes to recommendations.
  • Distinguishing what users said from what they did.

Inputs

  • The question the research must answer.
  • Access to actual users, not proxies.
  • The decision this informs.

Outputs

  • Findings grounded in observed behavior.
  • Themes supported by multiple participants.
  • Recommendations with a confidence level.

Workflow

  1. Ask what decision this informs — Research with no decision attached is a hobby. The decision determines who you talk to and what you ask.
  2. Ask about the past, not the future — "Tell me about the last time you needed to do X" produces evidence. "Would you use a feature that does X?" produces politeness. Nobody can predict their own behavior, and everybody says yes.
  3. Ask for the story, then dig — What happened, what did you do, what happened next, what did you do instead when it did not work. The workaround is the finding.
  4. In usability tests, give a task and shut up — "Buy a red one, size medium." Then do not speak. Every hint you give destroys the data you came for.
  5. Synthesize across participants, not within — One person's complaint is an anecdote. The same behavior in five of eight participants is a finding.
  6. Report behavior, and separate it from opinion — "Six of eight participants abandoned at the address form" is evidence. "Participants said the form was confusing" is a report of what they said.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 12d ago First seen · 144 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 34b0d9d22bdd

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user-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,501 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 2026-08-30.

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