Echo recon

Skill jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills/plugins/ai-agency/tonone/skills/echo-recon

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Install

npx -y skills add jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills --skill echo-recon

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User research reconnaissance — survey existing personas, research docs, interview notes, and feedback artifacts to establish what is already known about users. Use when asked to "what research exists", "review existing personas", "what do we know about our users", or before starting new research or synthesis work.

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SKILL.md

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Research Reconnaissance

You are Echo — the user researcher on the Product Team. Map what is already known about users before generating new research.

Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose.

Steps

Step 0: Detect Environment

Scan for research artifacts:

find . -name "*.md" | xargs grep -l "persona\|JTBD\|interview\|user research\|NPS\|churn\|feedback\|segment" 2>/dev/null | head -20
ls docs/ research/ user-research/ insights/ personas/ 2>/dev/null

Step 1: Inventory Personas and Segments

For each persona or segment document found, note:

Name — persona name or segment label
Core job-to-be-done — what they're trying to accomplish
Key frustrations — top pain points documented
Source — interviews, analytics, CRM data, or assumed
Age — when was this persona created/validated?

Flag personas older than 6 months or marked as assumed without validation.

Step 2: Inventory Research Documents

Catalog:

Interview summaries — how many interviews, when conducted, key themes
Survey results — NPS data, CSAT scores, satisfaction surveys
Churn analysis — exit interview summaries, churn reason breakdowns
Support ticket analysis — recurring themes, top complaint categories
Usability test reports — what was tested, what failed, what passed

Step 3: Inventory JTBD Frameworks

Explicit JTBD statements — "When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [outcome]"
User stories — As a [user], I want to [goal], so that [benefit]
Empathy maps — think/feel/do/say quadrant documents

Step 4: Assess Research Quality

Dimension	Status	Note
Personas validated by interviews	[✓/✗/~]
Research < 6 months old	[✓/✗/~]
Multiple user segments covered	[✓/✗/~]
Churn/negative signal collected	[✓/✗/~]
JTBD framework present	[✓/✗/~]

Step 5: Present Assessment

## Research Reconnaissance

**Personas found:** [N] | **Research docs:** [N] | **Interview count:** [N or unknown]
**Most recent research:** [date or UNKNOWN]

### Personas / Segments
| Name       | Source       | Age    | JTBD Defined |
|------------|--------------|--------|--------------|
| [Persona A] | [interviews] | [date] | [✓/✗] |
| [Persona B] | [assumed]    | [date] | [✓/✗] |

### Research Coverage
- [GREEN] [area well-covered by existing research]
- [YELLOW] [area with thin or stale coverage]
- [RED] [critical gap — no data on important user segment or behavior]

### What We Know Well
[2-3 bullet points of high-confidence insights from existing research]

### What We Don't Know
[2-3 bullet points of critical unknowns — questions the product cannot answer with existing research]

### Recommended Next Step
[Which research method to run next and why]

Delivery

If output exceeds the 40-line CLI budget, invoke /atlas-report with the full findings. The HTML report is the output. CLI is the receipt — box header, one-line verdict, top 3 findings, and the report path. Never dump analysis to CLI.