Skills from A Smart Bear

Name: Skills from A Smart Bear
Author: Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear

A third-party plugin from Jason Cohen (A Smart Bear), packaging twenty-one skills that walk you through ideas from his writing on startups. They cover defining your ideal customer, positioning, pricing, running customer interviews, and a blunt Q&A that pokes holes in your plan. These skills were written and reviewed by Jason Cohen.

Third-party, by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear

October 18, 2026

PluginBy Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear Homepage

1
Add the marketplace
Run this once in Claude Code. It registers the marketplace this plugin installs from (asb-skills), so every plugin in it becomes installable.
```
/plugin marketplace add asmartbear/asb-skills
```
2
Install the plugin
Installs this plugin and everything it bundles. Restart Claude Code afterwards so it picks the new skills up.
```
/plugin install asb-skills@asb-skills
```

Jason Cohen publishes this plugin from his own asb-skills marketplace. We list it here because founders look for it. These skills were written and reviewed by Jason Cohen.

The set works by asking you questions. It pushes you to name your ideal customer, sharpen your positioning, and think harder about pricing. It also helps you plan and run customer interviews, then make sense of what you heard. One skill plays a blunt reviewer who pokes holes in your plan.

The ideas come from Jason’s writing on startups. You can find the skills at skills.asmartbear.com and his essays at longform.asmartbear.com.

Install the plugin

Add the marketplace

Install the plugin

The skills it ships