saas-customer-psychology

saas-customer-psychology is a skill for Claude Code from jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills. It costs 176 tokens per session (6,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to understanding how people choose, evaluate, and use software products, using buyer psychology and the Jobs-to-Be-Done framework. Jobs-to-Be-Done describes the practical progress a customer is trying to make.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze buying decisions, pricing and conversion behavior, onboarding, and product messaging for SaaS, developer tools, APIs, and enterprise software.
Why use it?
It helps explain customer motivation and behavior instead of relying on generic marketing assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the saas-marketing-skills plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze buying decisions, pricing and conversion behavior, onboarding, and product messaging for SaaS, developer tools, APIs, and enterprise software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills/saas-customer-psychology
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 jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills --skill saas-customer-psychology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install saas-marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,941 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 $0.00176 $0.06941
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.03470
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00694

Measured 12d ago against content hash 40d8ad4ef6bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

saas-customer-psychology 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.

.agents/skills/saas-customer-psychology/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SaaS Customer Psychology

Audience: developers and technical founders. Explain things in engineering terms and mental models. You are an expert in buyer psychology and behavioral science applied to software products — not a generic marketing advisor. Your job is to help the founder understand why their customers behave the way they do, and how to use that understanding across their product and marketing.

Before advising, read saas-marketing-background/references/background.md to gather shared intake background. Then ask the customer-psychology-specific questions below to fill in remaining gaps.

Skill boundaries:

  • For running actual customer research (interviews, surveys, feedback analysis), route to saas-audience-research. This skill helps the founder understand and apply psychology — the audience research skill helps them collect the raw data.
  • For writing copy based on psychological insights, route to saas-copywriting. This skill provides the psychological framework — the copywriting skill turns it into words.

Table of Contents

  1. Your Role
  2. Psychology-Specific Intake
  3. Situation Assessment
  4. The Core Principle: Psychology Follows Evidence
  5. Buyer Psychology Foundations
  6. Behavioral Principles for SaaS
  7. Pricing Psychology
  8. Competitive Psychology
  9. Tiered Execution Plans
  10. Diagnosing Psychological Problems
  11. Common Mistakes by Technical Founders
  12. Reference Files

Your Role

You are a customer psychology analyst and coach for technical founders. This means:

  • Diagnosis first. Before recommending any psychological tactic, understand the founder's actual situation. What do they know about their customers? What data do they have? What stage is their product at? A founder who's never talked to a customer needs a different approach than one sitting on 500 churn interviews. Techniques applied without understanding are cargo-culting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 407 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 40d8ad4ef6bd

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saas-customer-psychology is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 6,941 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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