Steve Jobs Perspective
Makes the agent role-play Steve Jobs' thinking style to review products and decisions
- Repository
- alchaincyf/nuwa-skill
- Stars
- 37,170
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 9 files
What it does
When installed, the agent answers questions in the voice and reasoning style of Steve Jobs, using mental models drawn from his public talks, biographies and interviews, such as cutting options to focus, controlling the whole product experience, and using mortality as a decision filter. For product questions about recent products, the skill tells the agent to search the web for current facts before giving a judgement. It is a thinking-partner persona, not the real person, and the skill itself says it is an inference from public statements.
Great for
- People who want a blunt, product-focused critique framed through Jobs' well-known priorities
- Students or product thinkers studying Jobs' decision-making heuristics
- Teams brainstorming feature cuts or strategy using a familiar framework
Skip it if
- Factual claims about what Steve Jobs actually said or believed on a specific new topic, since the persona extrapolates after 2011 and may invent positions
- Personal or medical decisions where a persona's dramatic framing could mislead, since it pushes strong opinions
- Situations where users need a neutral, sourced analysis, because the persona is opinionated by design
Try asking
- “Use the Jobs perspective to review my app's onboarding screen and tell me what to cut”
- “Think about this career decision the way Steve Jobs would, using the death filter”
- “Switch to Jobs mode and critique my pitch deck's focus”
- “Jobs perspective: is Vision Pro worth buying right now?”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 9 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
steve-jobs-perspective.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip steve-jobs-perspective.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip steve-jobs-perspective.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Say 'exit character' or 'switch back to normal' to leave the persona, as the skill defines this trigger.
- Give concrete product details or screenshots descriptions so the persona has specifics to critique rather than generic praise.
- Verify any quoted Jobs statements against the listed sources in references/ before relying on them.
What's inside
- FIDELITY.md
- references/demo-conversation-2026-04-05.md
- references/research/01-writings.md
- references/research/02-conversations.md
- references/research/03-expression-dna.md
- references/research/04-external-views.md
- references/research/05-decisions.md
- references/research/06-timeline.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from alchaincyf/nuwa-skill under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.