Engineer Intent.prompt

# Project Intent Engineering Prompt

> **What intent engineering is:** The practice of encoding your project's purpose, values, trade-off hierarchies, and decision boundaries so that autonomous agents know what to *want* — not just what to do.
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> **When to use this:** Before any agent, teammate, or tool touches the work. Intent engineering is strategy. It sits above context (what agents know) the way strategy sits above tactics.
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> **The proof case for why this matters:** Klarna's AI resolved 2.3 million customer conversations in its first month. It also destroyed customer trust — because it optimized for resolution *speed*, not customer *satisfaction*. That's a perfect intent engineering failure. The agent had full context. It had zero intent.

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## The Prompt

Paste this into your AI of choice at the start of a new project:

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