Intent-Harden
Bundle
Three composed Claude Code skills that stress-test and tighten an intent contract before a planner ever runs. Catches invisible scope and dies most scope-creep early.
Why three skills together
/intent-harden is the orchestrator — a five-phase workflow (Expand · Compress · Visualize · Stress-test · Realign). Phases 1 and 2 explicitly invoke the other two skills as sub-routines:
- Phase 1 EXPAND →
/grill-medrives the design tree to surface every silent decision. - Phase 2 COMPRESS →
/linear-independencecollapses the grill output to the smallest set of truly independent decisions.
You need all three on disk for /intent-harden to run cleanly. The two component skills are also useful on their own.
One-command install
Drops three SKILL.md files into ~/.claude/skills/. Restart Claude Code to pick them up.
for s in intent-harden grill-me linear-independence; do
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/$s
curl -fsSL "https://guide.zenaitutoring.com/intent-harden/$s.md" \
-o ~/.claude/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
After install: invoke with /intent-harden, /grill-me, or /linear-independence.
The three skills
Curl each one individually, or use the bundle install above.
Stress-test and tighten an intent contract before planning. Composes /grill-me + /linear-independence and adds Visualize / Stress-test / Realign.
Interview relentlessly about every branch of the design tree until shared understanding is reached. Recommends an answer for every question.
Reduce questions to the smallest set of truly independent decisions. Cuts cognitive load when you're managing many agents at once.
Manual install (per skill)
If you only want one of the three, drop the file into its own folder under ~/.claude/skills/:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/grill-me
curl -fsSL https://guide.zenaitutoring.com/intent-harden/grill-me.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md