s-curve-technology-adoption

s-curve-technology-adoption is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 151 tokens per session (2,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for understanding how new technologies spread from a small group of early users to broad adoption and eventual market saturation. It uses the S-shaped growth curve and five adopter groups to explain changing buyer behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an innovation's current adoption stage, plan marketing for different buyer groups, and estimate when a market may level off.
Why use it?
It helps explain why growth or marketing can slow after early success. The approach shows that tactics that attract early users may not work for mainstream buyers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess an innovation's current adoption stage, plan marketing for different buyer groups, and estimate when a market may level off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/s-curve-technology-adoption
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill s-curve-technology-adoption
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,695 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 $0.00151 $0.02695
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00269

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5439fd6e8649, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s-curve-technology-adoption 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.

s-curve-technology-adoption/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

S-Curve Technology Adoption

Overview

Innovations spread on a sigmoid (S-shaped) curve: slow → accelerating → leveling off at saturation. The shape is universal: a reinforcing word-of-mouth loop drives growth; a balancing saturation loop caps it. Ryan & Gross (1943, Iowa hybrid corn) produced the first quantitative S-curve. Rogers (1962) codified five adopter categories: innovators (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%), laggards (16%) — each behaviorally distinct. Strategic core: what works to recruit one category fails for the next.

Composes with: feedback-loops · pmf-crossing-the-chasm · pricing-strategy · aarrr-pirate-metrics

When to Use

  • Growth stalling after early success; need to diagnose why
  • Planning a launch requiring sequenced strategy across adopter categories
  • Marketing-fit breaking — channels, messaging, or pricing that worked are no longer working
  • Forecasting market size and saturation timing; "when will this market peak?"
  • Debating whether a technology is at inflection or saturation — e.g. "is genAI an AI bubble or just getting started?", separating the adoption S-curve from the capability/scaling curve, sizing AI capex bets against adoption phase

When NOT to use: mature saturated market (diffusion already played out); adoption driven by regulatory mandate; exogenous constraint caps the market; too little data to distinguish real diagnosis from curve-fitting.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete product/case → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar or has no concrete case → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. One-line what-it-is: new technology doesn't spread at a steady pace — it goes slow, then fast, then slow again in an S-shape, and the people who adopt early are completely different from those who adopt late, which means your sales and marketing strategy must change as you move along the curve.
  2. Check fit: does the user have an innovation spreading through a population (not a mandated rollout, not a saturated market)?
  3. Elicit their real case — what product, what adoption data do they have, where do they think they are?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run The Process one step at a time: locate on curve, confirm with customer signals, estimate ceiling, project trajectory, identify next category, audit strategy.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close by naming the one strategy shift required for the next adopter category in their specific situation.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 126 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 5439fd6e8649

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s-curve-technology-adoption is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 2,695 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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