nate-b-jones-intent-engineering

name	Nate B Jones Intent Engineering
description	Design AI agents that reliably understand and execute user intent through explicit intent documentation, disambiguation protocols, and interpretation-execution separation
version	2.0
format	completion-engine
workflows	4

Nate B Jones Intent Engineering

Intent is not in the text the way context is. Intent is latent—priorities, tradeoffs, what done looks like, what's risky. This is the central failure mode of agentic systems. Nate B Jones identified that the central failure mode of AI agents isn't hallucination, context, or tool calling—it's the intent gap. His breakthrough: separate interpretation from execution, treat intent as a first-class architectural object, and build disambiguation loops for high-stakes actions. Core Insight: W

Available Workflows

#	Workflow	Produces	Use When
agent	Agent Intent Diagnostic & Optimization	Agent Reliability Audit & Remediation Plan	An existing AI agent is failing, behaving unpredictably, or producing 'answer-shaped' but incorrect results
intent	Intent-Centric Agent Architecture	Comprehensive Agent Intent Specification	Designing a new agent from scratch for high-stakes tasks where hidden constraints and priorities are critical
operational	Operational Safety & Communication Design	Agent Safety & Handover Protocol	Defining how an agent should handle uncertainty, ask for clarification, and transfer context between different stages of execution
spec	Spec-First Delegation	Delegation-Ready Six-Line Specification + Assumption Audit	Delegating to a bias-to-ship agentic model that executes instead of asking — the clarification loop must move upstream into the spec itself

Quick Reference

• Genius Context: genius.md — load before any workflow
• Legacy Prompts: references/_legacy-prompts/ — archived atomic prompts

Execution Prompts (structure-pure v2)

7 deterministic practitioner prompts — each carries an Output Contract, Output Skeleton, and Quality Gate. When a deliverable matches one, Read it and honor its contract instead of improvising the output shape.

• Agent Reliability Architect — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/agent-reliability-architect.md
• Context Transfer Protocol — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/context-transfer-protocol.md
• Disambiguation Protocol — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/disambiguation-protocol.md
• Guardrails Extractor — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/guardrails-extractor.md
• Intent Document Generator — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/intent-document-generator.md
• Intent Gap Analyzer — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/intent-gap-analyzer.md
• Prompt Surgery Protocol — skills/nate-b-jones-intent-engineering/references/prompts-v2/prompt-surgery-protocol.md