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# Intent *Act on what the user means. Not on what they typed.* *Memory Model role: Ensures each session is aimed correctly — so the memory accumulates progress, not drift.* > **Governing principle:** [Commander's Intent](../PRINCIPLES.md#principle-1-commanders-intent) — *Define the destination. Never prescribe the route.* This skill applies that principle in reverse: the user is the commander, the agent is the subordinate, and imprecise prompts are the norm, not the exception. A prompt is a compressed statement of intent. The user has a destination in mind and has picked words to point at it. Those words are almost always under-specified, occasionally contradictory, and sometimes literally wrong about details the user doesn't care about. An agent that executes the literal text produces technically-correct work that misses the point. An agent that interprets the intent, states the interpretation, and then executes gets to the destination. This skill makes that interpretation explicit and visible. --- ## The Work ### Extract Before doing anything else, understand the destination the prompt is pointing at and the reason behind it. The literal words are compression; the task is decompression. - **What outcome does the user actually want?** Not the verb they used — the end-state that makes the rest of what they said make sense. "Rewrite this function" might mean make-it-shorter, make-it-correct, match-the-codebase, or teach-me-how-you'd-write-it. These are different task