intent-driven-development

intent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 98 tokens per session (3,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for turning unclear or high-risk product and engineering changes into specific conditions that can be checked after implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define acceptance criteria, prepare implementation handoffs, and choose suitable ways to verify a proposed change.
Why use it?
It helps teams expose ambiguity and agree on what success looks like before changing security, data, migrations, integrations, or other sensitive systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define acceptance criteria, prepare implementation handoffs, and choose suitable ways to verify a proposed change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ufy2024/auc/intent-driven-development
View source ↗ ufy2024/AuC
About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,090 stars · on GitHub

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 ufy2024/AuC --skill intent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ufy2024/AuC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,510 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 25
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00098 $0.03510
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01755
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00351

Measured 7d ago against content hash 16f00f4920bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

auc/skill_library/bundled/intent-driven-development/SKILL.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent-Driven Development

Produce useful acceptance criteria without turning specification into ceremony. Inspect available context first, expose genuine ambiguity, and choose verification methods that fit the work and its risk.

When to Activate

  • User asks to clarify a feature, define acceptance criteria, or de-risk a change before implementation
  • Request touches security, authentication, persistent data, migrations, external APIs, or compliance
  • User wants to prepare a handoff artifact for another agent or team
  • Request is ambiguous enough that the expected outcome is not yet observable or testable
  • User explicitly invokes this skill with /intent-driven-development

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

How It Works

  1. Inspect context first — reads the repository, docs, schemas, and test infrastructure for technical facts before asking any question, while treating product/business constraints as something only the user or a product artifact can supply
  2. Choose depth — selects Quick Capture (3-7 criteria, low/moderate risk) or Full Acceptance Brief (security, data, migration, cross-system changes) based on the risk profile
  3. Ask minimally — only asks questions whose answers cannot be inferred and that materially change scope or behavior
  4. Write observable criteria — each AC-NNN describes a starting condition, trigger, expected outcome, prohibited side effect, verification method, and priority; no vague words like "correctly" or "securely" without evidence
  5. Proceed or hand off — for clear requests with no blocking risks, records criteria and continues; for risky changes, presents blockers and waits for confirmation
  6. Handle revision — if an AC fails mid-implementation due to architectural constraints, marks it [revised], updates scope or verification method, increments the revision number, and re-presents only the changed criteria

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 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. 7d ago First seen · 387 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 16f00f4920bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

intent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,090 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,510 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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