intent

intent is a skill for Claude Code from bartolli/kmd. It costs 185 tokens per session (2,682 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview-style guide for defining a project's purpose, scope, key terms, and wiki structure. It asks one question at a time and checks the code or wiki when those sources can answer instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a workstream, refine an existing project scope, test a plan's terminology, or create a glossary.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear assumptions and missing vocabulary before implementation begins. It also helps keep the written project scope consistent with the code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the wiki-sdd plugin — 10 skills, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a workstream, refine an existing project scope, test a plan's terminology, or create a glossary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bartolli/kmd/intent
View source ↗ bartolli/kmd
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bartolli/kmd --skill intent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bartolli/kmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wiki-sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 hooks.

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/skills/bartolli/kmd/intent/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bartolli/kmd/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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bartolli/kmd/intent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bartolli/kmd/intent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,682 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00185 $0.02682
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.01073
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00268

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa2454e993da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/claude/wiki-sdd/skills/intent/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent — Grill the Idea Against the Wiki

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of a project's intent until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask one question at a time, waiting for feedback before continuing.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase or wiki, explore instead of asking.

Prerequisites

Before grilling, the project must declare WIKI_SCOPE: <scope> in its project instructions (AGENTS.md or the harness's equivalent). If missing, suggest /wiki first and stop.

Mode detection

Read projects/<scope>/index.md in the vault:

  • Greenfield — file does not exist. Scaffold the scope from scratch (intent capture → identity → primer stub → methodology → vocabulary → lazy ADRs).
  • Brownfield — file exists. Refine intent, cross-reference code (if any), surface contradictions between user's stated model and code/spec reality, sharpen glossary.md and ADRs as the conversation reveals them.

Announce the mode you're running in before starting.

New-scope guardrail: if <scope> is not in vault.yaml's scopes: field, STOP. New scopes need explicit user approval. Surface the current scope list and ask.

Greenfield flow

Step 1 — Identity (lands in index.md)

Collect, one question at a time:

  • Title — What does this project deliver, in one phrase? (Recommend: short, noun-phrase form, e.g. "Operations system for a food truck")
  • Summary — What is it, in one or two sentences? (Recommend: extract from the user's first description; show your draft.)
  • Methodology — sdd (spec-driven), tdd (test-driven), or hybrid? (Recommend hybrid for app-layer work, sdd for spec-heavy or contract-first work, tdd when the surface is mostly behavior-discoverable. State your reasoning per project.)
  • Phase — what number? (Recommend 0 for greenfield, 1 if a working prototype exists.)
  • Tags — pick 3-6 from existing top_tags if prime(<scope>) is callable (MCP tool, or kmd prime <scope>); otherwise propose new ones with justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed aa2454e993da
  2. 1mo ago Changed 96b961e3b409
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A 276c26d4b81c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bartolli/kmd (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 2,682 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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