intent-driven-development

A planning command that turns an unclear or important change into specific acceptance criteria: observable conditions that define when the work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project context, write numbered criteria, name verification methods, and prepare requirements for another agent.
Why use it?
It reduces disagreement about scope and makes the result verifiable before implementation begins.

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/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/intent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00061 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 66fb24a8b170, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-driven-development 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-driven-development.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

/intent-driven-development

Convert an ambiguous or high-impact request into observable acceptance criteria before you build, so "done" is a fact two people would agree on and the agreed plan is held sacred (Law 2). Produce useful criteria without ceremony: inspect context first, expose only genuine ambiguity, choose verification that fits the risk.

Trigger phrases

  • /intent-driven-development
  • /intent-driven-development <the change>
  • "define acceptance criteria"
  • "scope this change" / "make this testable"
  • "de-risk this before we build it"
  • "prepare implementation requirements for another agent"

Do not trigger for trivial edits, one-line fixes, active debugging, code review, or requests whose acceptance conditions are already clear.

What happens

  1. Inspect and scope. Read the repo, docs, schemas, and tests for technical facts before asking. Capture product or business constraints only from the user or a product artifact, never inferred from code.
  2. Choose depth. Quick Capture (3-7 criteria, low or moderate risk) or Full Acceptance Brief (security, data, migration, cross-system, or handoff).
  3. Write criteria. Each AC-NNN names a scenario, a trigger, an expected observable result, a prohibited side effect when meaningful, a verification method, and a priority. No vague words without defined evidence.
  4. Proceed or hand off. Record the criteria and continue for a clear request; present blockers and wait when a change is risky. If a criterion cannot be met mid-build, mark it [revised], increment the revision, and re-present only the changed criteria.

Skill file

Full behavior is defined in skills/intent-driven-development.md.

Pairs with

  • /grill-me: grill-me clarifies a fuzzy input; this skill turns the agreed intent into verifiable criteria.
  • /roast: roast validates the idea, then scope the survivor into acceptance criteria.
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 · 37 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 66fb24a8b170

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent-driven-development is a command published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 494 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.