job-story-mapper

job-story-mapper is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for describing the progress a person is trying to make in a particular situation. It turns research and requirements into job stories covering practical goals, feelings, and how people want to be seen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write job stories, understand user needs, analyse interviews, and score opportunities and pain points.
Why use it?
It keeps product decisions focused on customer outcomes instead of a list of features.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-discovery plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write job stories, understand user needs, analyse interviews, and score opportunities and pain points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/job-story-mapper
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill job-story-mapper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-discovery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,288 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.
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 $0.00072 $0.01288
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00644
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00129

Measured 9d ago against content hash a82f039c5ee2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-story-mapper 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 9d 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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-discovery/skills/job-story-mapper/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Job Story Mapper Skill

Stop writing features. Start understanding jobs. This skill translates product requirements and user interviews into precise job stories that keep the team focused on outcomes — not outputs.

Jobs-to-be-Done Fundamentals

A "job" is the progress a customer is trying to make in a given situation. People don't buy products — they hire them to get a job done.

Three dimensions of every job:

  • Functional job: The practical task ("get from A to B")
  • Emotional job: How they want to feel ("feel confident I made the right choice")
  • Social job: How they want to be perceived ("look like a competent professional to my team")

Great products address all three. Most roadmaps only address the functional one.


Job Story Format

Template:

When [situation/trigger], I want to [motivation/goal], so I can [expected outcome].

Not a user story: User stories focus on roles and features: "As a [role] I want [feature] so that [benefit]." Job stories focus on situations and motivations: "When [I'm in this specific situation] I want [this capability] so I can [achieve this outcome]."

The situation is the most important part. "When I'm in the middle of a sprint and my PM asks for an update" is a much richer trigger than "As a developer."


Mapping Process

Step 1: Identify the main job

One sentence: What is the core job your product is hired for?

"Help [user type] [accomplish outcome] when [context]."

Step 2: Break into job steps

What are all the sub-tasks within the main job? (Use a job map: Define → Locate → Prepare → Confirm → Execute → Monitor → Modify → Conclude)

Step 3: Identify pain points per step

Where does the job fall down today? Where do customers use workarounds?

Step 4: Write job stories for each pain point

One job story per distinct situation-motivation pair.

Step 5: Map to product opportunities

Which job stories are underserved? Which have existing solutions? Where is your differentiation?

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 9d ago First seen · 139 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A a82f039c5ee2

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job-story-mapper is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,288 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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