Soc User Research

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user needs to understand customer needs
• Validate product assumptions
• Gather qualitative insights
• Design a research study — even if they say we need to talk to users

Example prompts

• “we need to talk to users”
• “how do we validate this idea”
• “what do our customers actually think”
• “/soc-user-research”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Warm-up: Build rapport (2 min) — "Tell me about your role/day"
2. 2Context: Understand their world (5 min) — "Walk me through the last time you..."
3. 3Core questions: Explore the topic (20 min) — Open-ended, no leading questions
4. 4Probing: Go deeper on interesting threads — "Tell me more about that", "Why?"
5. 5Wrap-up: Summarize and confirm (3 min) — "Did I understand correctly that...?"

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4e7f4f8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Soc User Research loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 523 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~97

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~8.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from asgard-ai-platform/skills at commit 4e7f4f8, republished under its MIT licence (© asgard-ai-platform). 523 words, ~1,313 tokens.

name

soc-user-research

description

Design and conduct user research using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and field observation. Use this skill when the user needs to understand customer needs, validate product assumptions, gather qualitative insights, or design a research study — even if they say 'we need to talk to users', 'how do we validate this idea', or 'what do our customers actually think'.

metadata.category

WP-18 社會科學院

metadata.tags

social-science, user-research, qualitative-methods

IRON LAW: Method Follows Question

Choose the method based on what you need to learn, not what's convenient.
"Why" questions → Interviews/Observation (qualitative)
"How many" questions → Surveys (quantitative)
"What do they really do" → Observation (behavioral)

Running a survey to answer "why" produces misleading data.

# User Research Plan: {Project}

## Research Questions
1. {what we need to learn}

## Method
- Type: {interview / focus group / survey / observation}
- Rationale: {why this method for this question}
- Sample: {who, how many, recruitment criteria}
- Timeline: {duration}

## Discussion Guide / Survey Instrument
{Key questions or survey structure}

## Analysis Plan
{How findings will be synthesized}

© asgard-ai-platform, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in soc-user-research of asgard-ai-platform/skills.

• SKILL.md
• examples/sample_scenario.md
• references/interview-templates.md
• references/survey-design.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4e7f4f8