A Smart Bear Skills - Setup Guide¶
Source: asmartbear/asb-skills (46⭐, pushed Aug 29, 2026)
Skill: asmartbear/asb-skills (21 installable skills)
Installs: ~540 per top skill, ~11K combined (Sep 27, 2026 snapshot)
Category: Product Strategy / Positioning
Quality Tier: 🔵 Community (no skills.sh security verdicts published - verified Sep 27, 2026)
Jason Cohen's A Smart Bear blog is one of the most-cited sources in B2B startup strategy (positioning, pricing, bootstrapping, "the problem"). This skill suite encodes his frameworks and the book Hidden Multipliers into 21 runnable agent skills: positioning exercises, problem-discovery workflows, needs-stack analysis, buyer/voter mapping, and the Carol framework (define, observations, keystones, inciting events, dealbreakers, strengths) for customer discovery. Agents get Cohen's exact questioning discipline as executable workflows.
Installation¶
# Full suite
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills
# Positioning subset
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-positioning
Roster - Top Skills¶
| Skill | Installs | Does |
|---|---|---|
| asb-positioning | 555 | Positioning statements and differentiation |
| asb-problem | 546 | Problem discovery and validation |
| asb-rude-qa | 545 | The "rude Q&A" test for claims |
| asb-who-me | 544 | Who-has-this-problem discovery |
| asb-needs-stack | 542 | Needs-stack analysis (JTBD-style) |
| asb-voters | 541 | Buyer/voter identification |
| asb-carol-define | 538 | Carol framework: define the customer |
| asb-carol-observations | 537 | Carol framework: gather observations |
| asb-carol-keystones | 537 | Carol framework: find keystone beliefs |
| asb-carol-inciting-events | 536 | Carol framework: inciting events |
| asb-carol-dealbreakers | 535 | Carol framework: dealbreakers |
| asb-carol-strengths | 534 | Carol framework: strengths inventory |
| asb-interview-debrief | 540 | Interview debrief: turn one customer conversation into a question-mapped debrief file (verbatim phrases, addenda) |
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| CorpusIQ positioning | asb-positioning and asb-rude-qa pressure-test our own messaging |
| User research | The Carol framework skills structure customer-discovery interviews |
| Feature validation | asb-problem and asb-needs-stack frame feature requests as validated problems |
| Help-first content | Cohen's frameworks convert directly into operator-help content angles |
Integration with CorpusIQ¶
CorpusIQ is the connector layer that lets AI assistants read the systems a business already runs on - accounting, payments, CRM, email, files and analytics - and answer with the source named. It is read-only by design: it retrieves data and never writes to, or acts in, a connected system, which is what makes it safe to point at live accounts.
This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.
Limitations / Verification¶
- Skills encode frameworks, not data - they guide the agent's reasoning rather than calling APIs
- Repo is new and small (46⭐); skills.sh lists no security verdicts yet
- Verify:
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --listshows 21 skills
Security¶
No skills.sh security audits published (verified Sep 27, 2026):
| Audit | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Gen Agent Trust Hub | Not published |
| Socket | Not published |
| Snyk | Not published |
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