intent

A command for recording an idea, ticket, or incident as a draft intent.md file without starting implementation. The file is a version-controlled description of the problem for later planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture free-text ideas or Jira and GitHub tickets, or to start an interview when the problem has not yet been clearly described.
Why use it?
It preserves the original problem, author, time, and revision history before anyone decides how to build a solution. This gives product owners something to review first.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/galando/temper/intent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/galando/temper
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.01122
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8a91a95aaeae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d ago.

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.

commands/intent.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent: Capture an Idea as an Artifact

Goal: Turn an idea, a ticket, or an incident finding into a committed .temper/specs/{slug}/intent.md with Status: draft — and stop there. This is the entry point for work that isn't ready to build yet: the originator (who may not be the implementer, or an engineer at all) describes the problem in their own words; the committed draft is what a product owner reviews and what /temper later picks up.

/temper's own Intent stage (and standalone /temper:plan) still creates intent.md when none exists — this command exists for the capture-now-build-later split, so the idea's author, timestamp, and revision history live in version control from the moment it's real. A draft captured here is exactly what the pipeline's Intent gate later presents for acceptance.

Usage

/temper:intent "handlers spend a third of call time on status-only queries"
/temper:intent "JIRA-4521"      # fetch the ticket, capture it as intent
/temper:intent                  # no argument — interview from scratch

Execution

  1. Understand the problem, not the solution. Read $ARGUMENTS (detect Jira/GitHub/free-text the same way /temper:plan Phase 0 does). Then ask what an analyst would ask — scope, who is affected, what better looks like, what is out of scope — via AskUserQuestion, max 2-3 concrete rounds. No formal language is required of the originator; producing structure is your job, not theirs.

  2. Write the draft to .temper/specs/{slug}/intent.md using $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/templates/intent.md:

    • Header: **Author:** (from git config user.name / user.email), **Status:** draft, **Created:**, **Ticket:** if one was given.
    • Fill Problem, Success Criteria (measurable, each with a Validate: type), Constraints, Target Users, and Open Questions (every unresolved point from step 1 — carrying a question forward honestly beats resolving it by guess).
    • Do not write Scenarios or pick an architecture. BDD scenarios are derived from the measured blast radius at Plan time (reference/plan.md), not at capture time. Leave the Scenarios section as the template's placeholder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 8a91a95aaeae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent is a command published in the GitHub repository galando/temper (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,122 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 2026-08-30.