jtbd

jtbd is a skill for Claude Code from Kaminoikari/product-playbook. It costs 66 tokens per session (3,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Jobs To Be Done framework for understanding the task and motivation that makes someone choose a product or solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before designing or evaluating a solution to describe what users are trying to accomplish, how they want to feel, and how they want to be perceived.
Why use it?
It prevents analysis from focusing only on features by requiring functional, emotional, and social reasons for use.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the product-playbook plugin — 18 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before designing or evaluating a solution to describe what users are trying to accomplish, how they want to feel, and how they want to be perceived.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kaminoikari/product-playbook/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 Kaminoikari/product-playbook --skill jtbd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kaminoikari/product-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks.

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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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,369 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 $0.00066 $0.03369
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01684
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00674
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00337

Measured 12d ago against content hash b263bc6bfe42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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/jtbd/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jobs To Be Done

Detect the user's language and reply in it; the framework below is authored in English.

Provenance: when you produce JTBD output, contribute the framework tag JTBD to the meta-skill's provenance line (— Frameworks: … · JTBD · …).

Framework

Phase 1: Discovery — JTBD Analysis

1.3 JTBD (Jobs to Be Done) Analysis

"The unit of analysis is not the consumer, but the job the consumer is trying to get done." — Clayton Christensen

JTBD Three-Layer Coverage (quality check: cover all three layers):

A complete JTBD analysis covers all three layers explicitly: Functional (the task being completed), Emotional (how the user wants to feel during/after), and Social (how the user wants to be perceived). Producing only the Functional layer is the most common JTBD failure: Emotional and Social Jobs are routinely the real switching triggers, especially in B2B. If a single Persona genuinely has no meaningful Emotional or Social Job for the product, state that explicitly with one sentence of reasoning; do not silently omit the row.

JTBD Canonical Form (quality check: three-clause structure):

Every JTBD statement in every layer (Primary, Functional, Emotional, Social) is written as a complete three-clause sentence in the canonical form. All three clauses matter:

When [situation], I want to [motivation], so [outcome].

Failing examples (fragments inside a table cell, missing clauses):

  • ❌ "Quickly capture key takeaways" (missing When; missing so)
  • ❌ "Jot down ideas during commute" (missing I want to; missing so outcome)

Passing example (all three clauses present):

  • ✅ "When I've just finished reading an article and the key insight is still fresh, I want to capture one takeaway in 5 seconds, so weeks later I can still find it and connect it to a new idea."

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · 182 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A b263bc6bfe42

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jtbd is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kaminoikari/product-playbook (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,369 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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