intent-driven-development

intent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from userInner/SKILLS. It costs 98 tokens per session (3,400 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of intent-driven-development, Apache-2.0.

A guide to turning unclear or risky engineering requests into specific acceptance criteria. These are observable conditions that define what must be true for the work to be considered complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying features, preparing handoffs, defining verification checks, and making high-impact changes easier to review and test.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings before implementation, especially for changes involving security, data, migrations, integrations, or unclear requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Clarifying features, preparing handoffs, defining verification checks, and making high-impact changes easier to review and test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/userinner/skills/intent-driven-development-affaan-m-ecc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add userInner/SKILLS --skill intent-driven-development-affaan-m-ecc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/userInner/SKILLS

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 3,400 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.03400
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01700
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00340

Measured 7d ago against content hash e34045f7b3bf, 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

This is a copy

89% identical to intent-driven-development — 30 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

community-skills/engineering/intent-driven-development--affaan-m-ecc/SKILL.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 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 · 361 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 7d ago First seen · 361 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A e34045f7b3bf

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intent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository userInner/SKILLS (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,400 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to intent-driven-development, differing in 30 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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