intent

intent is a command for Claude Code from artemnovichkov/skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An intent-capture command that turns a rough feature idea or bug report into a structured Markdown document. It asks about the problem, desired result, affected parts, exclusions, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an accepted intent file in an SDLC workflow, where SDLC means the steps used to take a change from idea to reviewed code.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting with an unclear or solution-shaped request, and gives the project a documented starting point.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the sdlc plugin — 1 skill, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create an accepted intent file in an SDLC workflow, where SDLC means the steps used to take a change from idea to reviewed code.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add artemnovichkov/skills
Claude Code
/plugin install sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for intent

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/artemnovichkov/skills/intent/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/artemnovichkov/skills/intent)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for intent

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 504 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00504
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00252
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured yesterday against content hash 198dd292c0da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/sdlc/commands/intent.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Stage 1 — Capture as intent

Turn a rough idea into a committed, machine-readable intent. This is the cheapest stage to be wrong in: the goal is a document worth arguing with, not a finished spec.

$ARGUMENTS is the raw idea. If empty, ask the user what they want to build or fix.

Workflow

1. Interview, do not transcribe

Ask about whatever the idea does not already answer — one round, not an interrogation:

  • What is broken or missing today, and who feels it?
  • What does "done" look like from outside the code?
  • Which parts of the system does this touch? (search the repo and propose an answer instead of asking blind)
  • What is explicitly out of scope?
  • What constraints are fixed — deadline, platform, dependency, compatibility?

If the repo has CLAUDE.md, read it first so questions do not re-ask what the repo already documents.

2. Draft the artifact

Use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/intent.md. Write sdlc/intent/<slug>.md where <slug> is kebab-case, derived from the title, max 5 words. Check for a slug collision in sdlc/intent/ first.

Rules for the draft:

  • Problem stated as an observed fact, not as a solution in disguise.
  • Outcome measurable by someone who cannot read the diff.
  • Open questions listed honestly — an intent with zero open questions is usually a lie, and the list is what the spec stage resolves.
  • No implementation detail. If you catch yourself naming a class or a file, it belongs in the spec or plan.
  • Status: draft.

3. Hand back for correction

Show the draft and ask for corrections. Iterate until the user accepts it, then flip Status: to accepted.

4. Offer the commit

Print the exact command:

git add sdlc/intent/<slug>.md && git commit -m "intent: <title>"

Do not run it without the user saying so. Then tell them the accepted intent unlocks /sdlc:spec <slug>.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 198dd292c0da

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intent is a command published in the GitHub repository artemnovichkov/skills (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 504 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-07.