Intent-Harden Bundle · Blake Sims

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-me drives the design tree to surface every silent decision.
Phase 2 COMPRESS → /linear-independence collapses 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#

/intent-harden#

Stress-test and tighten an intent contract before planning. Composes /grill-me + /linear-independence and adds Visualize / Stress-test / Realign.

/grill-me#

Interview relentlessly about every branch of the design tree until shared understanding is reached. Recommends an answer for every question.

/linear-independence#

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, put 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