jtbd-psychographic-research

jtbd-psychographic-research is a skill for Claude Code from mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide using Jobs-to-be-Done and psychographic frameworks to understand why people choose products and brands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during brand positioning, voice, messaging, strategy, and customer research to describe functional, emotional, and social jobs and the forces that influence switching.
Why use it?
It helps separate practical needs from emotional and social motivations, making audience and brand decisions less based on assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-vibes plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it during brand positioning, voice, messaging, strategy, and customer research to describe functional, emotional, and social jobs and the forces that influence switching.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes/jtbd-psychographic-research
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 mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes --skill jtbd-psychographic-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vibes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,197 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 $0.00073 $0.01197
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00479
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8c51454aba5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jtbd-psychographic-research 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 1mo 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.

plugins/vibes/skills/jtbd-psychographic-research/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

JTBD & psychographic research frameworks

Quick reference for Jobs-to-be-Done and psychographic frameworks that inform brand strategy. This skill auto-activates during brand work to ensure audience insights inform every phase.

"95% of purchasing decisions are made in the subconscious mind." — Gerald Zaltman, Harvard


The three job types

Every "job" customers hire a product for has three dimensions:

Dimension Question Example
Functional What task are they accomplishing? "Watch content without ads"
Emotional How do they want to FEEL? "Feel relaxed, avoid boredom"
Social How do they want to be SEEN? "Recommend shows, feel in-the-know"

Job Statement Format: "When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [outcome]."


The Four Forces of Progress (Bob Moesta)

Why customers switch (or don't):

        PROMOTING FORCES
   ┌────────────────────────────┐
   │   PUSH          PULL       │
   │   (Struggles)   (Attraction)│
   ├────────────────────────────┤
   │   HABIT         ANXIETY    │
   │   (Comfort)     (Fear)     │
   └────────────────────────────┘
        BLOCKING FORCES

The Formula: If Push + Pull > Anxiety + Habit, they switch.

Force Key Question
PUSH "What frustrates you about your current solution?"
PULL "What excites you about this alternative?"
ANXIETY "What worries you about switching?"
HABIT "What would you miss about your current approach?"

Limbic types (Hans-Georg Hausel)

Three emotional systems drive behavior:

System Driven By Brand Response
Stimulance Novelty, fun, exploration Scarcity, newness
Dominance Status, control, power Exclusivity, prestige
Balance Security, stability Social proof, familiarity

Seven Types: Traditionalist, Harmonizer, Open Connoisseur, Hedonist, Adventurer, Performer, Disciplined

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed · -17 tokens per session 8c51454aba5b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 07e76c7446e3

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jtbd-psychographic-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,197 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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