talk-to-users

talk-to-users is a skill for Claude Code from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured customer-interview programme called a Technical Advisory Board, where developers and buyers are interviewed regularly about their real problems. It is research, not a product demonstration or sales call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recruiting a representative group of users and customers, planning recurring one-to-one interviews, asking the same questions over time, and using their words to guide positioning, roadmap decisions, and website copy.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about marketing, product messaging, and the roadmap with repeated conversations with the people who use or pay for the product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gtm-cofounder plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Recruiting a representative group of users and customers, planning recurring one-to-one interviews, asking the same questions over time, and using their words to guide positioning, roadmap decisions, and website copy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidevgtm/gtm-cofounder/03-talk-to-users
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill 03-talk-to-users
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-cofounder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,034 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00052 $0.01034
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf74dd00aeff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk-to-users scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/03-talk-to-users/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talk to users (the TAB system)

The best marketing to developers comes from talking to developers. That's it. Everything else in this repo is downstream of this skill.

Use this when: you've never done a real user interview, your messaging is clever but unverified, or you keep debating the roadmap internally instead of asking the people who feel the pain.

The core idea

Stand up a Technical Advisory Board: 30-50 people who represent your users and buyers, not grey-haired advisors telling you how to build. You interview them, on repeat, and let their words become your positioning, roadmap, and homepage copy.

A TAB call is not a demo and not a sales call. It's an interview. You never mention the product.

Framework: the TAB system (Frankl)

Composition

  • One+ representative of every persona that touches the product (see who-is-this-for)
  • Both users (interact) and customers (pay), often different people
  • Target 30-50 members

Cadence

  • 30 minutes · one-on-one · monthly · for ~6 months
  • Zoom, recorded with permission, never in person
  • Same questions every time · never pitch

Recruitment (it's a numbers game)

  • Personalize every message, never batch-and-blast
  • Lead with their problem, not your startup
  • Max 4 sentences
  • ~10% reply → plan ~500 outreaches for ~50 members
  • No payment: early access, influence, swag

Template:

Dear [Name],

Your post about [specific problem] was genuinely sharp.

I'm building something to attack [that problem] and I'd value your view. Would
you consider joining my technical advisory board?

If so, reply and I'll set up a short call to explain what's involved.

The 7 questions (never more than 7 in 30 min)

  1. Magic wand: "If you could wave a magic wand and change anything about how you do [task], what would it be?"
  2. The stakes: "If we delivered that, how would it change your day / your work?"
  3. Why now: "What's different about the world now that makes this more valuable than five years ago?"
  4. What caused this problem in your org?
  5. What have you tried, and why did it fall short?
  6. What happens if nothing changes for another year?
  7. Where do you go to stay current on this? (who/what they trust)

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 91 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A cf74dd00aeff

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talk-to-users is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder (276 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,034 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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