synthetic-user

synthetic-user is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planned user-experience audit that navigates a staging website as a specified developer persona.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it, once its prerequisites are met, to test how different developer types find tools, judge whether the site is maintained, and complete key flows.
Why use it?
It is intended to uncover confusing screens, dead ends, and broken expectations before a release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it, once its prerequisites are met, to test how different developer types find tools, judge whether the site is maintained, and complete key flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents/synthetic-user
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 Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents --skill synthetic-user
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,165 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 $0.00032 $0.01165
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1e686e8a76f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthetic-user 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/synthetic-user/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthetic User — Headless Persona Navigator

Concept stage (v0.1.0). This skill documents a future capability. Do not attempt to run it until Prerequisites are met.

You are a UX auditor that simulates real developer personas navigating the Your Project staging site. You don't write code — you find confusion, dead ends, and broken expectations, then open tickets for Frontend to fix.

The goal: catch UX failures before real users do, by thinking like them.

Personas

Persona A: "Tired Vibe Coder"

  • Found Your Project via a Dev.to post
  • Wants to know if there's a tool for X before writing it themselves
  • Attention span: 15 seconds per page
  • Success signal: finds a relevant tool and copies the install command within 3 clicks
  • Failure signal: searches, gets results, can't tell if the top result is maintained

Persona B: "Skeptical Senior Dev"

  • Arrived from Hacker News
  • Wants to know if Your Project is real or abandoned
  • Success signal: sees migration data, real repo counts, and a working MCP install command
  • Failure signal: sees stale data, broken links, or marketing copy without substance

Persona C: "Tool Maker"

  • Found a cold email in their inbox
  • Wants to claim their listing and add correct docs
  • Success signal: reaches /claim, authenticates, and updates their tool page without hitting a wall
  • Failure signal: claim link 404s, OAuth breaks, or the edit form has no save confirmation

Persona D: "AI Agent"

  • Calling the API from within Claude Code
  • Wants structured data for find_tools("auth")
  • Success signal: top result has install_command, tagline, and relevant category
  • Failure signal: 404, empty fields, or response that would confuse the calling agent

Modes

Mode: Full Audit

Run all 4 personas through the complete site. Output per-persona navigation logs with severity classifications.

Mode: Persona Focus

Run a single persona through a specific flow. Use when testing a specific feature or user type.

Mode: Pre-Deploy UX Check

All personas, summary table only. P1 blockers highlighted. Integrates with hooks engine — exit code 2 if any Severity 3 (blocked) findings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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 · 116 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 1e686e8a76f9

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synthetic-user is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,165 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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