crossing-the-chasm SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 3 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
crossing-the-chasm from wondelai/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wondelai/skills/crossing-the-chasm@v1.4.1Pins v1.4.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wondelai/skills
- Path
crossing-the-chasm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.4.1, committed Sep 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 22, 2026
- Size
- 14,505 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,640
- License
- MIT
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", "tech go-to-market", "bowling pin strategy", "technology adoption lifecycle", "pragmatist buyers", "growth stalled after early adopters", or "our go-to-market plan". Also trigger when planning go-to-market for a technical product. Covers the D-Day analogy, bowling-pin strategy, the tornado…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Crossing the Chasm Framework Strategic framework for marketing and selling disruptive technology products, particularly the transition from early adopters to mainstream customers. ## Core Principle **There is a chasm between early adopters and the mainstream market.** Most tech companies fail not because they can't build great products, but because they can't cross from visionaries who love new technology to pragmatists who just want solutions that work. The two groups want fundamentally different things -- what wins over innovators actively repels the early majority -- so you must change your strategy, and your whole product, to cross. If the product is modern PLG/freemium B2B SaaS, read [references/b2b-saas.md](references/b2b-saas.md) first -- it remaps every step below (the chasm, beachhead, whole product, metrics) for self-serve trials, free tiers, and the false-signal trap where 1,000 free users looks like a crossing but isn't. ## Scoring **Goal: 10/10.** Score any tech go-to-market by the Quick Diagnostic at the end: count the rows answered "yes" and map the 7 rows onto a 0-10 scale (roughly 1.4 points per satisfied row). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wondelai/skills/crossing-the-chasm@sha256:93c266a4aaa2f95bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Feb 22, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 40 days.
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| v1.4.1 latest | 2026-09-10 | c172996 | 14,505 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0 | 2026-06-30 | 0dea03f | 14,505 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-06-24 | 5356d12 | 13,656 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-06-10 | 968c871 | 13,563 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-04-05 | 4d32253 | 14,864 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-02-22 | ba37181 | 14,641 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14505 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
wondelai/skills · 2,640 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_upnhrugngojajmeh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wondelai/skills/crossing-the-chasm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93c266a4aaa2f95b0682e66ce4450d1eb2bbf64a271942f9cec9ecb59b8fde7c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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