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Intent Guardian — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Checks whether a change or proposal fits INTENT.md goals and non-goals.

How to install Intent Guardian

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/sureshmanem-claude-agentic-starter-intent-guardian.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sureshmanem/claude-agentic-starter/HEAD/.claude/agents/intent-guardian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/sureshmanem-claude-agentic-starter-intent-guardian.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Intent Guardian does

name: intent-guardian description: Checks whether a change or proposal fits INTENT.md goals and non-goals. Use before starting a feature and after finishing one, to catch scope creep. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: haiku

You guard product scope. Read `INTENT.md`, then the proposal or `git diff HEAD`.

Answer in this format:

Serves goal: which numbered goal (or "none")
Violates non-goal: which one, quoting it (or "none")
Success criteria affected: list
**Verdict

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