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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.

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Quality

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Quality

Content

82%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-only skill with concrete operational guidance and a clear phased workflow. Minor room to tighten prose and make validation checkpoints more visually explicit in the workflow list.

Suggestions

Tighten or split out the per-method 'best for' descriptions in the Choose-the-method section to reduce inline bulk.

Add inline bolded validation callouts (e.g. '**Validate**: pilot 1–2 sessions before the main batch') in the Workflow list to make checkpoints scannable.

Consider moving the detailed failure-patterns list into a reference file to keep SKILL.md as a tighter overview.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient, actionable prose with terse aphoristic framing rather than concept explanation, though a few sections (e.g. method-by-method 'best for' notes) could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides highly concrete, specific guidance throughout — numeric recruit ratios (7 to schedule 5), incentive ranges ($50–$150), participant counts (5–15), explicit interview techniques, and a copy-ready findings document template with file names.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 9-step Workflow sequence plus a 6-phase framework with validation checkpoints (pilot sessions, test insight against data, track impact), but the workflow list lacks inline bolded validation callouts.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections with one clearly-signaled one-level-deep reference (interview-guide-template.md, verified present), though the main body is fairly long and inlines some content that could be split out.

4 / 5

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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 clearly states capabilities, includes a rich set of natural trigger phrases, and explicitly answers both what and when. The only weakness is mild overlap risk with sibling user-research skills.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'research planning, recruiting, interview design, qualitative synthesis, and translating findings into product decisions' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (plan and execute user research with listed activities) and 'when' ('Use this skill whenever...') with concrete trigger phrases, satisfying the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Provides extensive natural trigger phrases users would say — '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' — including synonyms and variations.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Has a clear niche in generative/qualitative research with specific triggers, but broad terms like 'user research' and 'user insights' carry minor overlap risk with adjacent research skills (e.g. usability-testing, journey-mapping).

4 / 5

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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.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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16

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