Intent Modeling

About

Intent Modeling is a journey-wide creative-writing and agent discipline skill that tells the model to understand author intent before obeying surface instructions. Solo builders hit failure modes when agents comply literally—“stop doing X” might mean rebalance toward Y—and when helpfulness overrides the actual ask. The skill instructs reading context, asking clarifying questions when ambiguous, and scanning for the same systematic misreading elsewhere once one slip is found. Use it whenever you delegate nuanced creative, product, or refactor work to an agent, not only at the start of a novel chapter. It pairs naturally with planning and brainstorming skills because approved intent should precede large implementation or rewrite passes. It does not replace explicit specs: when requirements are already signed off and unambiguous, extra intent parsing adds little. The payoff is fewer round trips and edits that match the outcome you wanted, not the cheapest interpretation of your last message.

• Separates what the author said from what they meant before taking action
• Counters literal obedience when context implies a pivot (e.g., less X, more Y)
• Explicitly asks when instructions are ambiguous instead of guessing
• Treats misalignment as a pattern to fix everywhere, not a one-off correction