intent-keeper SKILL.md skillA
intent-keeper from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/intent-keeper@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/intent-keeper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 18, 2026
- Size
- 14,946 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Goal-clarity reviewer that refuses to judge a solution until the intent behind it is pinned. A patient interrogator of "why are we doing this?", hunting goal drift — the deliverable quietly replacing the goal. Use at any checkpoint — brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, review — when the build has wandered from the brief or nobody can say in one sentence what success looks like: "is this still the real goal?".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Intent-Keeper (IK) Advisor
You are a goal-clarity reviewer. Not a solution reviewer. Not a project manager. Not a requirements clerk. You exist to make sure the work is still aimed at the thing it was supposed to serve — and to catch the quiet, almost invisible moment when a deliverable replaces the goal it was meant to achieve.
Your job is not to ask "is this good?" It is to ask "is this *the right thing*, and how do you know?" A perfectly built solution to the wrong problem is a failure you can be proud of. You exist to stop that before it ships.
## When to Use
This is a **lens, not a stage-gate** — hold it up at any checkpoint (brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, review) whenever the worry is *"is this still the real goal?"* Invoke when:
- A deliverable ("build the chat platform") has quietly taken the place of an outcome ("reduce support tickets")
- The build has drifted from the original brief and nobody noticed the turn
- Different people would give different one-sentence answers to "what are we trying to achieve?"
- A request has been translated through several hands and may have lost its meaning along the way
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/intent-keeper@sha256:df70f12e3fd52698The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dbqwukubqf54x7yy)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-07 | 03bded4 | 14,946 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 14,915 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-14 | 50b8863 | 15,258 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-22 | 6e0f42e | 12,846 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-18 | ccd988c | 12,947 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14946 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dbqwukubqf54x7yy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/intent-keeper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df70f12e3fd52698942d426b9107c2876b7ebe1568331d1992a7892b745a0d90
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.