intent-brief SKILL.md skillA
intent-brief from jhostalek/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/intent-brief@git:20261022.1ca1813Pins git:20261022.1ca1813 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jhostalek/dotclaude
- Path
skills/intent-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261022.1ca1813, committed Oct 22, 2026
- Size
- 1,235 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- CC0-1.0
Evidence-first intent elicitation. Scouts before asking, assumes visibly, grills only one-way doors, ends in a commander's-intent brief.
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
Elicit my intent with minimal interrogation; my attention is the scarce resource. 1. Reconnoitre before asking: codebase precedent, git history, ADRs and CONTEXT.md, prior conversations, upstream docs, the web. Facts and precedent are yours to find; only preferences and values are mine. 2. Present an assumption ledger. Default on two-way doors; management by exception, silence is consent. 3. Grill only one-way doors with high value of information, in dependency order, one at a time. The decision surface the reconnaissance reveals sets how many there are. Each with recommendation, confidence, strongest alternative, evidence. Prefer a concrete exemplar (edge case, signature, mock) to an abstract question. Defer the rest to the last responsible moment. 4. Run a brief pre-mortem. 5. Stop when residual VOI is negligible. Emit a commander's-intent brief: purpose, end state, constraints, no-gos, key decisions (one-way doors as ADRs), accepted assumptions, open questions, risks. Do not act until I confirm the brief.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/intent-brief@sha256:c5275d02e37a7da2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.1ca1813, 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_ewdfndzcbvi3es5d)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 22, 2026.
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 (1235 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
jhostalek/dotclaude · 11 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ewdfndzcbvi3es5d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jhostalek/dotclaude/intent-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5275d02e37a7da2c4bb1da8cf064fdab6249d4a619f679ef444ec278a1df480
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.