jtbd-building

jtbd-building is a skill for Claude Code from ljucask/pureinn-product-development. It costs 57 tokens per session (4,164 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Jobs-to-be-Done analysis skill that studies why a person chooses to change from one solution to another. It produces job stories, a forces diagram, and the events or obstacles that influence switching.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after customer research and personas to describe user needs as situations, desired outcomes, and reasons for switching. Its output can guide later product and design decisions.
Why use it?
It helps explain the reason behind a user's decision, beyond a simple list of persona traits or complaints. Missing information is marked instead of being guessed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the pureinn-product-development plugin — 51 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it after customer research and personas to describe user needs as situations, desired outcomes, and reasons for switching. Its output can guide later product and design decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ljucask/pureinn-product-development/jtbd-building
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 ljucask/pureinn-product-development --skill jtbd-building
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ljucask/pureinn-product-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pureinn-product-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,164 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 $0.00057 $0.04164
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02082
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00833
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00416

Measured 11d ago against content hash ac7e5f9c0bdb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jtbd-building 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 11d 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-building/SKILL.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM - JTBD Analysis

Agent mode (--agent)

Supports --agent: runs autonomously in a subagent, drafts the artifact from existing inputs, and returns a short summary + coverage note.

  • No flag → interactive (default); if inputs are heavy, offer agent mode.
  • --agent → obey. First check inputs are complete. Anything missing: do NOT invent it - mark [ASSUMED - what/why] in the output and summary. Never hallucinate to fill a gap.
  • Review required: the artifact contains commitments - after drafting, require the user's review before finalizing; do not close decisions autonomously.

What this skill does

Applies Jobs-to-be-Done theory to the validated customer research and personas to produce:

  1. Job Stories - When / I want to / So I can formulations per key persona
  2. Forces Diagram - what pushes away from the current solution and pulls toward a new one
  3. Switching logic - what triggers the decision to change, and what blocks it

JTBD analysis goes deeper than persona pain points. It explains the causal mechanism behind why someone would switch - the forces operating on their decision. This is the input for design decisions in Phase 3a (Design Thinking).

Run this after pm-personas. Personas give you who - JTBD gives you why.

Commissioned builds - two levels of job: the commissioner (client/sponsor) has their own job - they "hire" the product at business level (earn more / spend less / reduce risk / comply / status). That is distinct from the end users' jobs analyzed here. Record it as a separate, clearly labeled Commissioner Job story (source: client-discovery notes) - it governs prioritization and the engagement's success measure, while user jobs govern design. Never average the two into one job story.


Dependencies

Required before running:

  • pm-personas - personas and their pains are the foundation for JTBD analysis

Recommended before running:

  • Raw interview transcripts - JTBD is most powerful when grounded in actual interview data, not synthesized personas alone

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 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. 11d ago First seen · 410 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A ac7e5f9c0bdb

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jtbd-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository ljucask/pureinn-product-development (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,164 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 2026-08-31.

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