Needs Stack
A third-party skill by Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear. It is a standalone skill, not part of a workshop. It anchors the level your product serves in your customer's own words, then walks down to the steps you make unnecessary and up to what they truly want. It writes NEEDS-STACK.md.
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What it does
Map what your customer really wants as a ladder where each need leads to the next.
How to use this
Once it is installed, this skill picks itself up. You do not need to name it.
- Created by
- Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear
- Category
- Marketing
- Source
- View source
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Needs Stack
A third-party skill by Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear. It is a standalone skill, not part of a workshop. It anchors the level your product serves in your customer's own words, then walks down to the steps you make unnecessary and up to what they truly want. It writes NEEDS-STACK.md.
Third-party, by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear
October 18, 2026
Install through the asb-skills plugin
This skill ships inside Jason Cohen's asb-skills plugin. Install the plugin to get this skill along with the other twenty.
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/plugin marketplace add asmartbear/asb-skills - 2
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What this skill does
This is an overview of the skill from the site, not the skill's real instructions. The full SKILL.md Claude reads when this skill is active lives on GitHub at the source below.
Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear wrote this skill. We list it here so you can see what it does. This skill was written and reviewed by Jason Cohen. Read his own page for it at skills.asmartbear.com/skills/asb-needs-stack.
This skill is one of twenty-one in the Skills from A Smart Bear plugin, which you can install in one step.
View full SKILL.md on GitHub