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ux-research

Plan and execute user research including research planning, recruiting, interview design, qualitative synthesis, and translating findings into product decisions. Use this skill whenever the user wants to plan user research, design interviews, recruit participants, conduct discovery, run formative research, or synthesize qualitative findings. Triggers on user research, UX research, user interviews, discovery research, generative research, formative research, qualitative research, user insights, research synthesis, recruitment, interview guide, jobs to be done. Also triggers when product decisions are being made without user input and the user wants to fix that.

Quality

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Content

88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, highly actionable instruction skill with concrete parameters, templates, and a workflow containing genuine validation and feedback loops. The only weaknesses are minor redundancy between the failure-patterns section and earlier phases, and slight duplication between the body's interview anti-patterns and the external template.

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Conciseness

The body is dense with specifics ("60 minutes, 5 to 15 participants", "$50 to $150 for 60 minutes", "Recruit 7 to schedule 5") and explains nothing Claude already knows, but the "Failure patterns" section restates warnings already given in phases 3-5, which is minor trimmable redundancy.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable for an instruction-only skill: exact output file names ("research-plan-[topic].md", "interview-guide-[topic].md"), a copy-paste findings document structure, concrete probe phrasing ("Tell me about the last time..."), and a weak/better question rewrite table cover the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 6-phase framework plus 9-step workflow has explicit validation checkpoints and feedback loops: "Pilot. Run 1 to 2 sessions before the main batch. Refine the guide", "Test the insight against the data. If the insight only fits some interviews, it's a hypothesis", and "Track impact. Did decisions change...".

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single reference (references/interview-guide-template.md) is real, clearly signaled with a markdown link and one-line description, and one level deep; however, the "Conduct" section's anti-patterns (leading questions, hypotheticals, filling silence) duplicate the reference's "Things to avoid", a minor organization gap.

4 / 5

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20

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Description

96%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that concretely states capabilities, covers natural trigger terms with synonyms, and explicitly separates what from when. Its only weakness is a couple of broadly-worded trigger terms ("recruitment", "jobs to be done") that could match adjacent skills.

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Specificity

"Plan and execute user research including research planning, recruiting, interview design, qualitative synthesis, and translating findings into product decisions" lists five concrete actions spanning the full research lifecycle, matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers what ("Plan and execute user research including...") and when ("Use this skill whenever the user wants to plan user research, design interviews...") with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"user research, UX research, user interviews, discovery research, generative research, formative research, qualitative research, user insights, research synthesis, recruitment, interview guide, jobs to be done" provides comprehensive natural trigger terms with synonyms, plus a proactive trigger clause for decisions made without user input.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The generative/discovery research niche is clearly distinct, but the bare terms "recruitment" and "jobs to be done" carry minor overlap risk with adjacent HR-recruiting or JTBD skills, fitting the mostly-distinct anchor rather than the minimal-conflict anchor.

4 / 5

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19

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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15

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16

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Repository

rampstackco/claude-skills

Path

skills/ux-research/SKILL.md

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