jtbd-framing

jtbd-framing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 164 tokens per session (4,378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning method called Jobs-to-be-Done, which focuses on what people are trying to accomplish rather than on feature requests or demographic profiles. It uses situations, reasons for choosing a solution, and reasons for abandoning one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write job statements, study moments when users struggle, define why they choose or reject a solution, and support product discovery, prioritization, and positioning.
Why use it?
It helps teams understand the real problem behind a request and make clearer product decisions. It also warns against producing framework documents without using them to guide discovery, priorities, or positioning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write job statements, study moments when users struggle, define why they choose or reject a solution, and support product discovery, prioritization, and positioning.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,378 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 $0.00164 $0.04378
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.02189
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00876
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00438

Measured 9d ago against content hash 31dce3d89f9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jtbd-framing 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/jtbd-framing/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jobs-to-be-Done Framing

A senior product leader's playbook for the Jobs-to-be-Done framework as applied methodology. Job statements, struggling moments, hire and fire criteria, the difference between feature-thinking and job-thinking. Honest about where JTBD adds clarity and where it becomes performative ritual.

JTBD has become one of the more cited and less practiced frameworks in product. Teams cite it in strategy docs, run job-statement workshops, produce wall-sized artifacts, and continue building from feature requests and persona archetypes the next quarter. The methodology gets the credit; the practice gets skipped.

This skill is JTBD as applied product methodology. The framework's actual contribution: surfacing what users are trying to ACCOMPLISH (the job) rather than treating users as preference-aggregators (feature requests) or demographic archetypes (persona theater). When the framing is grounded in struggling moments and hire/fire criteria, it produces decisions; when it stops at the job-statement worksheet, it produces ritual.

This skill is honest about both modes. JTBD genuinely earns its keep in discovery, prioritization, and positioning when applied with rigor. It becomes ceremony when teams treat job statements as deliverables rather than as analytical tools.

The voice is the senior product leader who has used JTBD well and watched plenty of teams use it badly. Concrete, opinionated about what the framework actually contributes, willing to call out where it gets oversold.

When to use this skill: applying JTBD to a discovery cycle, replacing persona-driven prioritization with job-driven prioritization, reframing positioning around what users hire the product to do, or auditing whether existing JTBD work in the org is driving decisions.


What this skill is for

This skill spans JTBD as a framing technique within product work. The PM-skill distinction:

  • discovery-research-synthesis is broader synthesis discipline; JTBD is one framing technique within it.
  • jtbd-framing (this skill) is the specific JTBD methodology, its strengths, and its failure modes.
  • pm-spec-writing is downstream: specs reference jobs as input.
  • creative-direction is positioning territory; JTBD informs positioning but does not replace creative direction.
  • roadmap-planning is downstream: roadmap can be organized around jobs rather than features.

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 9d ago First seen · 267 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 31dce3d89f9b

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jtbd-framing is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (830 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 4,378 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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