intent-keeper skillA
intent-keeper is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills: 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?".
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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@v1.0.0mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/intent-keeper@sha256:df70f12e3fd52698Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dbqwukubqf54x7yy)
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Versions
| 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 2026-09-23 · 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
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