Competing Against Luck — Clayton Christensen
Jobs to Be Done turns Clayton Christensen’s Competing Against Luck into instructions your AI agent loads on demand. It makes the agent reconstruct the progress a customer was trying to make — the circumstance, the struggle, the functional, social and emotional stakes — then judge every feature against that job rather than against a competitor’s feature list.
- The Job, Not the Product
- Circumstances & Struggles
- Competing Against Nonconsumption
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“Conduct a JTBD interview analysis for my productivity app using jobs-to-be-done skill”
Hooked — Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal’s Hooked explains how products become habits, and Hooked UX is the free AI agent skill that puts the model to work. Your agent maps your product onto the four-step cycle — trigger, action, variable reward, investment — names the step your loop is missing, and designs the fix without reaching for another notification.
- The Hook Model
- External & Internal Triggers
- Reducing Friction
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“Map the Hook cycle for my social media app using hooked-ux skill”
Tiny Habits — BJ Fogg
Improve Retention packages BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits, and the B=MAP model behind it, as a skill your agent loads when usage is sliding. Every behavior that failed to happen gets blamed on exactly one of three things — motivation, ability or prompt — and the fix is usually to shrink the action until it survives a bad day.
- B=MAP Model
- Shrink the Behavior
- Ability Chain
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“Analyze why users drop off after signup and design habit loops using improve-retention skill”
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Lean Startup is a free AI agent skill built on Eric Ries’s book. It puts Build-Measure-Learn in your agent’s hands: name the leap-of-faith assumption, design the smallest experiment that could disprove it, choose one actionable metric over the flattering ones, and write down the pivot-or-persevere threshold before the experiment is allowed to run.
- Build-Measure-Learn
- Minimum Viable Product
- Validated Learning
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“Define an MVP scope for my product idea using lean-startup skill”
Sprint — Jake Knapp
Ask your agent for a Design Sprint and you get Jake Knapp’s five-day process from Sprint, hour by hour: Monday’s map and target, Tuesday’s solo sketching, Wednesday’s Decider, Thursday’s facade prototype, Friday’s five customer interviews. The skill produces the artifacts — sprint questions, prototype brief, five-act interview script — rather than a summary of the method.
- Map & Target
- Sketch Solutions
- Decide
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“Plan a 5-day design sprint for our new onboarding flow using design-sprint skill”
Continuous Discovery Habits — Teresa Torres
Continuous Discovery installs Teresa Torres’s Continuous Discovery Habits as a practice your agent can actually run — an opportunity solution tree from outcome down through opportunities, solutions and assumption tests, a weekly interview cadence instead of research campaigns, and experiments sized to the risk rather than to the calendar.
- Opportunity Solution Trees
- Weekly Customer Interviews
- Assumption Mapping
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“Build an opportunity solution tree for our user onboarding outcome using continuous-discovery skill”
Inspired — Marty Cagan
Marty Cagan’s Inspired is about how strong product organizations work, and this skill hands that model to your agent: the four risks tackled during discovery before anything is committed to delivery, teams given problems rather than dated feature lists, and a product vision and strategy concrete enough for a team to act on.
- Empowered Product Teams
- Product Discovery
- Four Key Risks
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“Assess the four key risks for this product idea and suggest discovery activities using inspired-product skill”
The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test skill takes Rob Fitzpatrick’s book and makes your agent the person who checks your questions before you ask them — rewriting hypotheticals into questions about last Tuesday, deleting every sentence that mentions your idea, and marking which lines in your notes were compliments dressed up as evidence.
- The Mom Test Rules
- Avoiding Bad Data
- Asking for Commitment
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“Write interview questions for validating our product idea that follow The Mom Test using mom-test skill”
Shape Up — Jason Fried & DHH
The 37signals Way carries Shape Up and the wider Basecamp playbook — Getting Real, Rework — into your agent’s working memory. It shapes work against an appetite instead of estimating it, writes pitches with breadboards and named rabbit holes, plans six-week bets behind a circuit breaker, and cuts scope rather than moving the date.
- Build Less
- Shaping the Work
- Betting & Cycles
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“Shape a pitch for this feature idea using appetite, breadboard, and risks using 37signals-way skill”
Lean Analytics — Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
Lean Analytics gives your agent the measurement half of the lean toolkit, from Croll and Yoskovitz’s book: choose the One Metric That Matters for your business model and stage, separate numbers that change a decision from ones that only look good in a board deck, and draw a line in the sand with a target, a date and a consequence.
- Good vs Vanity Metrics
- One Metric That Matters
- Metrics by Business Model
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“Pick the One Metric That Matters for our SaaS at our current stage using lean-analytics skill”