Crossing The Chasm

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Product · Sub-category: product-misc

Navigate the technology adoption lifecycle from early adopters to mainstream market. Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", or "tech go-to-market". Covers D-Day analogy, bowling-pin strategy, and positioning against incumbents. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For new market creation, see blue-ocean-strategy. Trigger with 'crossing', 'the', 'chasm'.

What this skill does

Crossing The Chasm is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/crossing-the-chasm/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user mentions "crossing the chasm", "beachhead segment", "whole product", "early adopters vs. mainstream", or "tech go-to-market".

Who uses this skill

The Crossing The Chasm skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/crossing-the-chasm
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/crossing-the-chasm/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\crossing-the-chasm\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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