prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore

prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore is a skill for Claude Code from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 149 tokens per session (3,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-adoption strategy based on Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm model, which explains how products move from technology enthusiasts and early adopters to the wider market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an adoption stage, choose a beachhead market, define who belongs in that segment, find whole-product gaps, and plan reference customers.
Why use it?
It helps explain why early interest may not lead to mainstream adoption. It identifies a focused first customer group and the product gaps that must be addressed before expanding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess an adoption stage, choose a beachhead market, define who belongs in that segment, find whole-product gaps, and plan reference customers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattgierhart/prd-driven-context-engineering/prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,166 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00149 $0.03166
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01583
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00317

Measured 11d ago against content hash b1d009a35ed2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore 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.

.claude/skills/prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crossing the Chasm (Moore) — the v1.0 Spine

Position in workflow: v0.9 Feedback Loop Setup → v1.0 Crossing the Chasm (Moore) → all v1.0 work

Execution Mode

Default is deep (this is a major strategic decision; quick mode is for hypothesis pre-work only). See .claude/rules/08-skill-execution-modes.md.

Mode What this skill produces
quick Stage assessment only (ADO-STAGE-*); beachhead candidate hypothesis
standard Stage assessment + beachhead segment + top 3 whole-product gaps + reference-account candidate list
deep (default) Full stage assessment with evidence + sharpened beachhead with in/not-in criteria + complete whole-product gap analysis + reference-account cultivation plan + chasm-crossing risk register

Framework: Moore's Technology Adoption Lifecycle

From Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey Moore, 1991, updated 2014). The bestselling tech-strategy book of the 1990s, and still the canonical model for understanding why early traction doesn't predict mass adoption.

The lifecycle

Stage % of market Buyer mindset What they buy
Innovators (2.5%) Tinkerers; technology enthusiasts Want to try new things; tolerate incomplete products Vision, technical depth, access
Early Adopters (13.5%) Visionaries Want strategic advantage from non-mainstream tech Bold vision + first-mover ROI
— THE CHASM —
Early Majority (34%) Pragmatists Want reliable productivity gains from proven solutions Whole product + segment-specific references
Late Majority (34%) Conservatives Want safe, mature defaults Market leadership, low risk
Laggards (16%) Skeptics Resist change (Generally not worth targeting)

The chasm

The gap between Early Adopters and Early Majority is the chasm. Most products die here. The reason: visionary buyers (who got you to early traction) actively want the cutting-edge, while pragmatist buyers want to be the second penguin off the iceberg — they need to see peers in their segment succeeding first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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 · 218 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A b1d009a35ed2

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prd-v10-chasm-adoption-moore is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 3,166 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.