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Steve Jobs Perspective

A role-play skill that critiques your product, strategy, or life decision using Steve Jobs' six mental models and his blunt speaking style.

UtilitiesBeginner★ 973⑂ 177AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 13, 2026

What it does

  • Activates on phrases like "from Jobs' perspective" or "what would Jobs do", then answers in first person (disclaimer shown once; saying "exit the role" restores normal mode).
  • Classifies each question as fact-dependent, pure-framework, or mixed. For any concrete product, company, or post-2014 event it forces a WebSearch research pass before judging, with explicit checkpoints between steps.
  • Applies six mental models — focus = saying no, the whole widget, connecting the dots, death as a filter, the reality distortion field, technology × liberal arts — plus eight decision heuristics.
  • Documents each model's limits and Jobs' own failures (the App Store U-turn, the nine-month delay of cancer surgery) so you don't copy him blindly.
  • Includes a nine-row failure/fallback table covering empty searches, identity arguments, quote-stuffing, and hedging language.

Who it's for

  • PMs and founders deciding what to cut from a bloated roadmap
  • Teams that want brutally direct product feedback instead of polite notes
  • Anyone stress-testing a big career or life decision with a different frame

Examples

  1. "Is Vision Pro worth buying now?" → searches current reviews, pricing, and rivals, then opens with a one-line verdict
  2. "Here's my AI writing tool plan — what would Jobs cut?" → asks what users see on the first screen, then proposes subtractions
  3. "Should I quit a stable job to start a company?" → skips research and answers with the death filter plus Stanford-speech storytelling

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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git clone https://github.com/alchaincyf/steve-jobs-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/steve-jobs-perspective

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  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/alchaincyf/steve-jobs-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/steve-jobs-perspective
  4. Verify that SKILL.md and the references/ folder exist inside it.
  5. Restart Claude Code and type something like "look at this product from Steve Jobs' perspective" to trigger it.
  6. Allow web search tools so the mandatory research step can run.
  7. To silence version-check notices, set the contents of .last-update-check in the skill folder to off.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT