User Research Skill for AI Agents

The human layer in the AI stack — give any AI agent direct access to real human opinions, experiences, and decision-making.

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What is this?

An AI agent skill that enables any AI platform to plan, run, and synthesize user research — both qualitative (interviews) and quantitative (surveys) — without leaving the conversation.

Use it for general-purpose research (design research plans, interview guides, synthesize reports), or connect to Cookiy AI to run end-to-end studies with real or synthetic participants.

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Capabilities

	Capability	Description
Plan	Research Planning	Generates research plans, screening questionnaires, and interview guides
Synthesize	Report Synthesis	Turns raw interview transcripts into evidence-backed reports with codebooks, personas, and prioritized findings
Qual	Qualitative Studies	AI-moderated interviews with real or synthetic participants, via Cookiy AI
Quant	Quantitative Surveys	Multi-language surveys with conditional logic, respondent recruitment, and results — via Cookiy AI

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Install

Claude Cowork / Code Desktop

1. Customize > Personal Plugins > + > Create Plugin > Add marketplace, input cookiy-ai/user-research-skill, click Sync
2. Plugins > Personal > user-research-skill, click + on User research
3. (Claude Cowork only) Enable network access: Profile (bottom left) > Settings > Capabilities > Code execution and file creation > turn on Allow network egress, then set Domain allowlist to All domains — or add s-api.cookiy.ai under Additional allowed domains.

Claude Chat Desktop

1. Download the Skill ZIP file
2. In the app: Customize > Skills > + > Create Skill > Upload a skill
3. Enable network access: Profile (bottom left) > Settings > Capabilities > Code execution and file creation > turn on Allow network egress, then set Domain allowlist to All domains — or add s-api.cookiy.ai under Additional allowed domains.

Claude Code Terminal

/plugin marketplace add cookiy-ai/user-research-skill
/plugin install user-research@cookiy-ai
/reload-plugins

Optional — enable auto-update: /plugin, then choose Marketplaces tab > cookiy-ai > Enable auto-update

Codex / Cursor / OpenClaw / Other Agents

npx cookiy-ai

Or follow your agent's skill installation instructions to install manually.

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Usage

• Type /user-research-cookiy to explicitly invoke the skill.
• Or just describe your research goal — your agent will load the skill automatically based on semantic matching.

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Examples

"I want to understand why users churn after onboarding" — Designs a research plan, screener, and interview guide targeting early-stage drop-off.

"Here are 20 interview transcripts, give me a report" — Runs a five-phase synthesis pipeline and produces a structured report with themes and personas.

"Run a study on how developers choose CI/CD tools" — Via Cookiy AI: creates the study, runs AI-moderated interviews, and delivers the report.

"Survey 200 users about feature satisfaction" — Via Cookiy AI: designs a survey, recruits respondents, and collects results.

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License

MIT — Cookiy AI