intent-compass

intent-compass is a skill for Claude Code from ijust/intent-planner. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning step that turns an intent tree into decision criteria for a software change. It records the goal, boundaries, rules, evidence, and unresolved questions without changing application code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after intent-discover to define what success means, what must remain unchanged, which approaches are ruled out, and how later implementation choices should be judged.
Why use it?
It helps keep implementation aligned with the real purpose of the change instead of optimising only a small local problem. It makes forbidden directions and required conditions explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it after intent-discover to define what success means, what must remain unchanged, which approaches are ruled out, and how later implementation choices should be judged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ijust/intent-planner/intent-compass
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 ijust/intent-planner --skill intent-compass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ijust/intent-planner

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,311 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 $0.00043 $0.02311
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00924
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00231

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f0ee6f291fdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-compass 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.

templates/en/claude/skills/intent-compass/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

intent-compass Skill

Core Mission

  • Success Criteria:
    • North Star / Current Drift / Direction / Anti-direction / Invariants / Decision Rules / Evidence / Open Questions are all present
    • The local optimizations Claude tends to make are explicitly enumerated in Anti-direction
    • Only project-universal invariants are kept in the compass; packet-specific invariants are canonical in the packet file (Safety / Invariants)
    • No application code has been changed at all

When addressing responsibility/dependency boundaries, read “Compare boundaries” in ../intent-packets/rules/design-boundaries.md before recording decisions. Do not auto-adopt options.

Execution Steps

Step 1: Read the prerequisites

  • Read .intent/intent-tree.md. If absent, guide the user to "run /intent-discover first" and stop. Read the skeleton (L0–L4) from the body; read case records (機能追記/機能撤去/履歴/再起案) via the split store .intent/tree/ — index.md → the relevant <feature>.md — if it exists, otherwise from the legacy form at the body tail (permanent fallback; tree-normalize / DR133).
  • While reading, when you see an unsettled verb slipped into the settled phrasing of the compass / intent-tree (assume / reuse / planned / TBD / tentative, etc.), do not fix it by guessing; present it as a conversion proposal into Open Questions or an undetermined slot (with the reason and the revisit condition (Revisit when)). Promotion to a fixed value is left to the user's confirmation. Do not re-convert spots already recorded in Open Questions / Deferred / an undetermined slot.
  • Read the mode state in order: the inherited issue directory's discovery/<slug>-<rand>/mode.md (A34; inherit the issue name that discover output) → else the single .intent/mode.local.md (legacy) → else old .intent/mode.md (the CONTRACT.md read fallback contract). If both are absent, default to standard and add "mode undetermined; /intent-discover recommended" to the Open Questions (do not stop).
  • If an existing .intent/intent-compass.md exists, read it. If the split store .intent/compass/ (one symbol = one file; INV80) has the symbol, read index.md → that file's ## Law first; for symbols not in the store, read the legacy body as before (the legacy path is a permanent fallback = DR133).

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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 · +2 lines f0ee6f291fdf
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ea3fc0cbd625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent-compass is a skill published in the GitHub repository ijust/intent-planner (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,311 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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