intent git:20260817.f04083fA

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name: intent
description: Turn a rough ask into a clear work order. Use when the ask is rough, unspoken, or double-readable — before planning or building.
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Look up what the record, the repo, or the world can answer. Only what the user alone holds routes to a skill.

Route each thing still left to invent by what it is, invoking the named skill with the Skill tool:

- The words admit two readings that would build different things → use **clarify** skill.
- The user holds what they want but can't yet say it → use **elicit** skill.
- The user is missing something already settled and can't ask past it → use **explain** skill.
- The ask arrives committed, its decisions undefended → use **interrogate** skill.

Route again until nothing is left to invent. Where the input leaves it open, ask the negative once — what should this NOT do.

State the work order: the ask, what it must NOT do where that surfaced, and what is still open. As short as it goes with nothing in the spec lost — plain words.

The WHAT is confirmed and what's open is the technical path → use **shape** skill.