jtbd

jtbd is a skill for Claude Code from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning method based on the job a person is trying to accomplish, rather than on a requested feature or user type. Jobs to Be Done helps connect broad goals with the smaller steps needed to reach them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide what to build, identify target users, compare alternatives, position a product, and prioritize features.
Why use it?
It helps explain why people choose or switch products and keeps product decisions focused on outcomes. Asking “why?” moves toward the larger goal, while “how?” reveals smaller tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to decide what to build, identify target users, compare alternatives, position a product, and prioritize features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/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 kazdenc/builder-skills --skill jtbd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 995 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 $0.00049 $0.00995
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 9d ago against content hash 99b418c605cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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.

.claude/skills/product/frameworks/jtbd/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jobs to Be Done

When making product decisions, think in terms of the job someone is trying to get done — not the feature they're asking for, not the persona they fit, not the solution they currently use.

A job is a goal someone has independent of any product. People have been "listening to music" for centuries — the solutions change, the job doesn't. Ground every product decision in the job.

How to Think About It

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              ASPIRATIONS                     │  Who they want to become
│  ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │            BIG JOBS                   │   │  The main objective
│  │  ┌─────────────────────────────────┐  │   │
│  │  │         LITTLE JOBS             │  │   │  Steps within the job
│  │  │  ┌───────────────────────────┐  │  │   │
│  │  │  │       MICRO-JOBS          │  │  │   │  Individual activities
│  │  │  └───────────────────────────┘  │  │   │
│  │  └─────────────────────────────────┘  │   │
│  └───────────────────────────────────────┘   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Ask "why?" to move up. Ask "how?" to move down. The right altitude depends on what you're deciding — strategy lives at the top, feature design at the bottom.

Five Things to Separate

Always pull these apart. Mixing them leads to muddy thinking:

Element Ask Keep it
Who — the performer Who actually does this? Separate from the buyer, the boss, the audience
What — the job What are they trying to accomplish? Functional. No solutions, no adjectives
How — the process What stages do they move through? Chronological. Beginning → done
Why — the needs How do they measure success along the way? Specific. Measurable. One need per statement
When/Where — circumstances What context shapes how the job gets done? Concrete. Time, place, constraints

Writing Job Statements

Follow verb + object + clarifier. Think of an invisible "I want to..." in front.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 79 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 99b418c605cd

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jtbd is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (45 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 995 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.