intent-gate

intent-gate is a skill for Claude Code from wiolett-industries/marketplace. It costs 61 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short decision step before substantial coding, reviews, refactoring, debugging, or design work. It clarifies the intended result, scope, risk, and next workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing a suitable work path and assurance level, defining what may change, identifying what must stay intact, and deciding whether to ask a question.
Why use it?
It reduces costly misunderstandings by checking whether the obvious interpretation would change the requested behavior or affected parts of the project.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the workflow plugin — 9 skills, 17 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Choosing a suitable work path and assurance level, defining what may change, identifying what must stay intact, and deciding whether to ask a question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wiolett-industries/marketplace/intent-gate
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 wiolett-industries/marketplace --skill intent-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wiolett-industries/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 17 agents, 2 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-gate

README.md
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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-gate

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 540 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 $0.00061 $0.00540
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1ee6f6317169, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-gate 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 11d 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/workflow/skills/intent-gate/SKILL.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent Gate

Determine what the user actually wants, whether the obvious reading is safe, and which primary path and assurance profile fit. This is a brief local routing decision, not optional ceremony and not an automatic subagent step.

Gate

  1. State the intended outcome internally in one sentence.
  2. Identify only misreads that could materially change scope, safety, or user-visible behavior.
  3. Inspect cheap repository facts that can resolve them.
  4. Choose complexity (simple, medium, complex, very_complex) for execution shape and assurance (fast, standard, assurance, explicit audit) for risk.
  5. Set a change envelope: requested behavior, expected change class, expected surfaces, must-preserve constraints, and explicit non-goals.
  6. Choose the next module or direct path.
  7. Ask only when remaining ambiguity is material and a reasonable assumption would be costly, irreversible, or behavior-changing.

Use L0 for content/config-only changes, L1 for a localized behavior change, L2 for a cross-module contract or reusable abstraction, and L3 for a new subsystem/platform layer. Do not silently raise the class. A new API/schema/protocol/shared abstraction/layer outside the expected envelope requires a narrower alternative, explicit justification, or a material user question.

Before presenting any material plan, architecture decision, or scope-expanding solution, take one local second look from existing context: compare it with the request and envelope, remove unsupported scope, and choose KEEP, SHRINK, ASK, or REPLAN. Do this silently for chat-only work; do not add an agent or discovery pass.

When confidence is high, continue without printing a gate report. When a decision must be exposed, report only intent, assumption/question, assurance, and next path.

Independent Intent Review

Use read-only workflow_intent_reviewer only when all are true:

  • assurance risk applies;
  • material ambiguity remains after cheap inspection;
  • independent interpretation could prevent a high-impact misread;
  • the task-wide agent budget permits it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 11d ago First seen · 38 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 1ee6f6317169

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intent-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository wiolett-industries/marketplace (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 540 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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