Indispensable — Development skill for Claude Code
Advanced JTBD product-thinking framework for Claude Code.
How to install Indispensable
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open bluzir/indispensable and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Indispensable does
Advanced JTBD product-thinking framework for Claude Code. 15 skills for job extraction, segmentation, positioning, friction analysis, and assumption validation.
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README
Indispensable
Advanced Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework for product analysis. A set of [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) skills that apply JTBD methodology to product decisions — segmentation, positioning, messaging, and validation.
Every recommendation is grounded in real user jobs, not assumptions, features, or demographics.
What's inside
**Foundation** — `product-jtbd` skill with principles, anti-patterns, and 7 reference documents covering job story format, segment analysis, value propositions, landing page structure, friction analysis, evidence grounding, and product slop detection.
**15 skills** organized by workflow stage:
| Stage | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | teach |
Collects product context, writes Product Context section |
| Diagnostics | audit |
Full JTBD audit across 6 dimensions with severity ratings |
| Diagnostics | critique |
Strategic critique across 8 dimensions |
| Analysis | extract-jobs |
Extracts job stories from descriptions, feedback, reviews |
| Analysis | map-segments |
Groups users by shared jobs, scores segments |
| Analysis | find-friction |
Friction audit of user journey with severity scale |
| Analysis | score |
Scores and ranks segment opportunities |
| Refinement | sharpen |
Sharpens positioning and value prop with numbers |
| Refinement | distill |
Simplifies to ONE job, ONE segment, ONE value delta |
| Refinement | clarify |
Rewrites messaging through JTBD lens |
| Refinement | validate |
Finds riskiest assumptions, designs RAT tests |
| Generation | landing |
Generates landing page block structure |
| Generation | objections |
Creates evidence-based objection handlers |
| Generation | job-stories |
Writes full JTBD-format job stories |
Installation
Claude Code
claude install-skill https://github.com/bluzir/indispensable source/skills/product-jtbd
claude install-skill https://github.com/bluzir/indispensable sour
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