jtbd

jtbd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from glebis/humane-agentic-design. It costs 168 tokens per session (4,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for finding the real problem people are trying to solve when they use or consider a product. It turns interviews, transcripts, or reviews into a structured product brief and messaging ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze interviews or reviews, describe a product idea, break a user problem into outcomes, and prepare messaging or a go-to-market brief.
Why use it?
It helps separate genuine user needs from guesses and product jargon. This makes it easier to decide what to build and how to describe it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the humane plugin — 17 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze interviews or reviews, describe a product idea, break a user problem into outcomes, and prepare messaging or a go-to-market brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/jtbd
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 glebis/humane-agentic-design --skill jtbd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/humane-agentic-design

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install humane, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/jtbd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/jtbd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,663 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 $0.00168 $0.04663
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.02331
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00933
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00466

Measured 8d ago against content hash 74a633b9d4d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jtbd 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 14 executable files (scripts/graph.py, scripts/ingest_transcript.py, scripts/mine_reviews.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

humane/skills/jtbd/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

JTBD Project Describer

Announce at start: "I'm using the humane:jtbd skill to capture the job and its switching forces."

Purpose

Conduct a focused Jobs-to-Be-Done interview for one project and emit a decision-grade artifact bundle. The bundle contains a machine-readable jtbd.json, a shareable one-pager.md, and a messaging-angles.md derived from Switch forces. Ingest voice transcripts or review exports when available.

When to invoke

  • "Describe my project in JTBD."
  • "Turn this interview transcript into a JTBD brief."
  • "Mine these reviews for jobs."
  • "I need messaging from this product idea."
  • "Help me articulate what I'm actually building."
  • "Update my JTBD brief with new data."
  • "Decompose this job into outcomes."
  • "Generate a GTM brief from this JTBD."

If the user wants a full design spec (what to build, scope, components), prefer skill-studio — it's the heavier tool. jtbd is the quick, rigorous record.

Mode selection

Pick one at the start. Ask the user only if ambiguous.

Mode Input Output
Interview (default) live conversation full artifact bundle
Transcript ingest path to a voice interview transcript full artifact bundle + confidence flags
Review mining path to reviews (CSV/JSON) review-brief.md pre-seed → then Interview
Update path to existing <corpus_root>/<slug>/jtbd.json updated artifact bundle

Scope discipline

One project per session. If the user starts describing a second project, stop them: "That sounds like a separate project — let's finish this one first, then run humane:jtbd again for the next."

If the user drifts into implementation details, features, or tech stack: "Interesting, but let's stay at the job level — what is the person trying to accomplish?"


Interview flow

Pass 1 — Core (3–5 adaptive questions, one at a time)

  1. What is this? — One-sentence description. Push for clarity if vague.
  2. Who struggles and when? — The triggering situation. "Walk me through the last time this happened."
  3. What's painful today? — Current workaround and why it's not working.
  4. What does success look like? — The outcome, not the feature list.
  5. How should it feel? — Emotional payoff (optional, ask if natural).

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 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. 8d ago First seen · 395 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 74a633b9d4d5

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jtbd is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/humane-agentic-design (28 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 4,663 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 2026-08-30.

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