intent-engineering CLAUDE.md

intent-engineering CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from davidteren/intent-engineering. It costs 190 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for working on the intent-engineering repository, a code project for analyzing and improving AI-agent intent.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help agents navigate the project, understand its artifacts and configuration, and extend its plugin safely.
Why use it?
They tell an AI coding agent which guidance files to read and which repository rules to follow.

Instructions file

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 instructions/davidteren/intent-engineering/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidteren/intent-engineering
Per session 190 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 190 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00190 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured 3d ago against content hash bbc843564c2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-engineering CLAUDE.md 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 3d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

Project guidance for Claude Code (and any AI agent) working in this repository lives in AGENTS.md — read it first.

It covers: what this repo is, the load-bearing rules (the agents/ gitignore trap, plugin self-containment, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} paths, read-only/never-push, two-layer artifacts + .intense/ conventions), the repo map, how a run works, the five lenses and their contract, the shared contract layer, the config system, the knowledge base, how to extend the plugin, and the quality bar.

Quick pointers:

  • PLAN.md — design and phase detail.
  • STATUS.md — current-state snapshot · CHANGELOG.md — dated change history.
  • plugins/intent-engineering/README.md — end-user usage of the plugin.
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. 3d ago First seen · 16 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A bbc843564c2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent-engineering CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository davidteren/intent-engineering (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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.