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