idd

name

idd

description

Apply Intent-Driven Development (IDD) principles from Kamesh Sampath's IDD series to prompts, workflows, and CI/CD automation. Evaluate existing prompts for IDD alignment, rewrite them using the Goal/Requirements/Constraints/Output structure, or measure the Intent Compression Ratio (ICR) of a workflow. Use when: "review my prompt", "is this IDD-compliant", "rewrite this prompt", "measure ICR", "what is my ICR", "IDD audit", "intent compression ratio", "apply IDD", "improve my cortex exec prompt", "IDD principles".

When to Load

Load when the user wants to evaluate, improve, or measure a prompt or workflow through the IDD lens. Routes to the appropriate sub-skill based on intent.

IDD Primer

IDD (Intent-Driven Development) treats prompts as design artifacts, not casual inputs. Intent is the source of truth; code and execution are the outputs.

IDD Prompt Template:

[Goal]          — desired outcome / desired state
[Requirements]  — intent statements (not steps)
[Constraints]   — scope, safety rules, what not to do
[Output]        — what success looks like (Glass Box reporting)

ICR (Intent Compression Ratio): Total Ops / Intent Expressions

• ICR 1–3: command relay (the agent is just a wrapper)
• ICR 4–8: automation wrapper (meaningful compression)
• ICR 9+: architectural partner (high agentic readiness)

Target design point: Glass Box Compression — high ICR + full observability

• safe retry.

Reference: Kamesh's IDD Blog Series (external, community content)

Routing Table

Intent	Triggers	Load
Audit a prompt	"evaluate", "audit", "is this IDD", "review my prompt"	idd-evaluate-prompt/SKILL.md
Rewrite a prompt	"rewrite", "improve prompt", "apply IDD to", "fix my prompt"	idd-rewrite-prompt/SKILL.md
Measure ICR	"measure ICR", "what is ICR", "calculate ICR", "how much compression"	idd-measure-icr/SKILL.md

If intent is ambiguous, ask:

ask_user_question:
  header: "IDD"
  question: "What would you like to do?"
  options:
    - label: "Evaluate a prompt"
      description: "Audit an existing prompt for IDD alignment and score it"
    - label: "Rewrite a prompt"
      description: "Guided rewrite using Goal/Requirements/Constraints/Output"
    - label: "Measure ICR"
      description: "Calculate the Intent Compression Ratio of a workflow"

Shorthand Invocations

$devops-coco-agents:idd                   → ask intent, route to sub-skill
$devops-coco-agents:idd-evaluate-prompt   → load evaluate-prompt directly
$devops-coco-agents:idd-rewrite-prompt    → load rewrite-prompt directly
$devops-coco-agents:idd-measure-icr       → load measure-icr directly