Topic · Product & Project Management
Best user research skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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User research skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When the user wants to conduct, analyze, or synthesize customer research. | Nexus-JPF/ | 869 | 5 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 2 | 2.Looper Scaffold a well-designed agent loop with best-practice coaching and a cross-model review council. | ksimback/ | 710 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | End-to-end user research assistant — qualitative and quantitative. | cookiy-ai/ | 1.6k | — | ~954 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Discuss a domain with the user, research it from real sources, then generate a trusted skill bundle for it - a step-by-step workflow with a flowchart, a domain adapter, a trap fixture, and a smoke… | Sahir619/ | 2.3k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 5 | Pulls full in-context user feedback tickets through the Produck MCP server and turns them into an aligned product change instead of a guess. | tryproduck/ | 511 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | Guides a three-phase canvas, looking inward, looking outward, then reframing, to produce an equity-aware problem statement. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 2 repos | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Help users conduct high-impact customer interviews that move beyond surface-level feature requests to identify root emotional frustrations and specific causal triggers. | RefoundAI/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 8 | Guides a product discovery conversation and writes product-brief.md with the problem, evidence, scope, decisions and the next open question, for existing, client or own ideas. | open-mercato/ | 221 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 9 | Researches what people say on Reddit through semantic search on reddapi.dev: pain points, product validation, competitor research and subreddit trends. | lignertys/ | 1.3k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 10 | Analyze a user interview from Granola, pasted text, or a file into an evidence-backed briefing, journey insights, product findings, patterns, and actions. | egregore-labs/ | 291 | — | ~689 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 11 | Frameworks for user interviews, question design, and qualitative research. | slgoodrich/ | 138 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 6 mo ago |
| 12 | 12.Paper Scout Discover and recommend latest arXiv papers matching user research interests. | AlphaLab-USTC/ | 134 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 13 | Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 14 | Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then file it as a GitHub issue. | fossasia/ | 1.6k | 10 repos | ~678 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 15 | Synthesize multiple sources — articles, reports, notes, transcripts — into one structured brief with themes, agreements, contradictions, and gaps. | sgharlow/ | 388 | — | ~545 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 16 | Real-surface validation coordinator for engineering validation assignments. | Intelligent-Internet/ | 334 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Scores feature requests with RICE, mines customer interview transcripts for pain points, and offers PRD templates, with two Python scripts behind it. | davila7/ | 32k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 18 | Support discovery and research workflows using PM Brain’s discovery frameworks (research interviews, continuous discovery, JTBD, segmentation, opportunity assessment, idea validation… | andreaskelm/ | 234 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 mo ago |
| 19 | Convert markdown to DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF office documents — use when you need exportable deliverables | nyldn/ | 4.2k | 1 repo | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 20 | Plan a user research questionnaire, or turn collected responses into evidence-linked input for a PRD, with the AI Product Development Toolkit's research prompts. | TechNomadCode/ | 1k | — | ~266 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 21 | Builds an Opportunity Solution Tree that links one measurable outcome to customer opportunities, candidate solutions and experiments. | avelikiy/ | 103 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 22 | Coordinate multiple agents by splitting work into research, synthesis, implementation, and verification, assigning ownership, and keeping the coordinator focused on integration rather than raw… | LearnPrompt/ | 236 | — | ~346 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 23 | Designs customer interviews and turns the transcripts into decisions. | menkesu/ | 429 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 24 | Turns Riffrec screen, voice and event recordings into evidence for bug reports and requirements, and helps set up Riffrec when no recording exists yet. | EveryInc/ | 25k | — | ~695 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | 🇺🇸 User Interview & Cold-Start Operations Playbook — Battle-tested framework from HeyGen's 937 interviews to PMF. | Gingiris-1031/ | 110 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 days ago |
| 26 | Walks a product manager through a customer journey map one question at a time, from persona and scenario to pain points and opportunities. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | Product management helpers: a RICE scoring script, an interview transcript analyzer and PRD templates for prioritizing features, synthesizing research and writing requirements. | majiayu000/ | 286 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | Assist with core product management activities including writing PRDs, analyzing features, synthesizing user research, planning roadmaps, and communicating product decisions. | julianromli/ | 144 | 1 repo | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 29 | Builds a structured customer interview script with opening, warm-up, jobs-to-be-done exploration and wrap-up sections, following Mom Test rules against leading questions. | phuryn/ | 27k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 30 | A skill your agent uses when the user wants to research competitors, plan customer interviews, conduct market research, or understand their competitive landscape. | GTM-Strategist/ | 261 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 31 | Guides product managers through planning customer discovery interviews, from research goal and segment to method, question framework and success criteria. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 32 | Guides a product manager through a full discovery cycle from problem hypothesis to validated solution: framing, interviews, synthesis, solution options and experiments. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | Structures customer jobs, pains and gains in a Jobs-to-be-Done format, to clarify unmet needs, reposition a product or sharpen discovery. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 34 | Synthesizes existing research, market signals, and team knowledge into a working persona hypothesis, flagged for later validation. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 35 | 35.Mom Test Validates business ideas through customer conversations using Rob Fitzpatrick's Mom Test framework. | getagentseal/ | 721 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 36 | Synthesize qualitative and quantitative user research into structured insights and opportunity areas. | nicepkg/ | 192 | 2 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 37 | Guides a team through Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX Canvas v2 to frame a business problem, surface assumptions and decide what to learn and test next. | deanpeters/ | 7.2k | 1 repo | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | Maintain and visualize the user research preference profile. | AlphaLab-USTC/ | 134 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 39 | 39.Persona Gen Create 3 distinct user personas with a day in the life, quotable pain points, current workarounds, buying behavior, and a priority matrix showing who to build for first. | emotixco/ | 495 | — | ~787 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 40 | UX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. | maslennikov-ig/ | 259 | 5 repos | ~238 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 7 mo ago |
| 41 | UX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. | alirezarezvani/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 42 | 42.Shape Plan the UX and UI for a feature before writing code. An agent skill from growupanand/ConvoForm. | growupanand/ | 101 | 5 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 43 | Decision-grade workflow for synthesizing a source set into clear findings, contradictions, confidence markers, gaps, and next questions. | NateBJones-Projects/ | 4.7k | — | ~939 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 44 | Build, test, and publish an afm-next nightly release — full from-scratch build, user testing pause, GitHub release, and Homebrew tap update. | scouzi1966/ | 345 | — | ~8.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 45 | 创建结构化的用户访谈脚本,包含 JTBD(用户待办任务)探测问题、破冰环节、核心探索及收尾部分。遵循"老妈测试"原则——不引导、不推销,聚焦过去的实际行为。适用于准备用户访谈、创建访谈指南或规划探索性研究时使用。 | killvxk/ | 167 | — | ~547 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 46 | Turn messy user research notes, interviews, support tickets, surveys, and product context into an evidence-backed decision room: a single HTML artifact with an evidence ledger, theme map, confidence… | nexu-io/ | 100k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 47 | A skill your agent uses when planning and synthesizing product/user research as a method-and-repository discipline — selecting the right method for the goal (generative interviews vs usability test… | alirezarezvani/ | 28k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 48 | A skill your agent uses when the user needs to define their MVP, create a product roadmap, plan metrics and tracking, refine their value proposition with JTBD, or run usability tests. | GTM-Strategist/ | 261 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best user research skill?
Customer Research from Nexus-JPF/note-companion ranks first of the 144 user research skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 869 GitHub stars, 5 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 3.2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Looper and User Research Cookiy.
Which user research skills are official?
None yet. All 144 user research skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.