Intent Loop
Intent Loop gives Codex or DeepSeek Harness a small, local, traceable memory of what you currently want. It keeps requirements, guesses, evidence, unknowns, and disagreements separate, and updates the current view without erasing earlier corrections.
It stays inside the task where work is already happening. It does not plan or execute the work, bypass permissions, read private transcripts, create a user profile, or add another agent harness.
In plain language
Think of Intent Loop as a requirement note that the AI can keep tidy while you work:
- You say what you want, what must not change, and what is still uncertain.
- Intent Loop records those points in separate labeled boxes.
- When you correct something, the new version becomes current and the old version remains traceable.
- You can ask to see, export, switch off, or delete the note at any time.
See the simple Chinese guide for a two-minute introduction.
What it does
- Keeps explicit statements, inferences, external evidence, unknowns, and disagreements separate.
- Preserves corrections through supersession and invalidation instead of silently overwriting history.
- Stores structured, credential-redacted local records instead of complete prompts or transcripts by default.
- Supports
on, private, and off modes.
- Binds every project-scoped call to the active host workspace; a model cannot redirect a call to another project.
- Exports a compact summary or a portable task graph and physically deletes a claim or task after exact confirmation.
- Provides the same fifteen intent-state tools to Codex and DeepSeek Harness through one shared local MCP core.
Hosts and evidence boundary
| Host | Package | Runtime | Current boundary |
|---|
| Codex | Repository marketplace plugin | Node.js 20+ | Self-contained Skill, MCP server, and optional fail-open Hooks |
| DeepSeek Harness | dsh-intent-loop bundle | Node.js ^22.19.0 or >=24.0.0 | Thin adapter pinned to Harness 0.1.2-alpha.2, which is a developer preview |
The source suite has 73 Codex tests. The DeepSeek adapter additionally tests tool registration, credential isolation, bounded session cleanup, real MCP calls, workspace forgery rejection, session isolation, deletion, and package composition. A temporary Windows DeepSeek Harness lifecycle completed package, add, compose, boot-help, remove, and cleanup without a model API key.
GitHub Actions runs the Codex and DeepSeek suites on Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS. Exact release results are recorded in the verification report. These checks establish implementation and packaging behavior. The frozen paired 80-task human study has not been run, so this beta makes no claim that it reduces rework or improves final results.
Install for Codex
Review the plugin manifest, Skill, MCP definition, and optional Hooks before installation:
plugins/intent-loop/.codex-plugin/plugin.jsonplugins/intent-loop/skills/intent/SKILL.mdplugins/intent-loop/.mcp.jsonplugins/intent-loop/hooks/hooks.json
codex plugin marketplace add rrrrrredy/intent-loop --ref v0.2.0-beta.5
codex plugin add intent-loop@intent-loop
Start a new Codex task after installation. Manual Skill and MCP use works without Hook trust. Automatic session association and compact-context restoration require you to inspect and explicitly trust the Hook definition.
Install for DeepSeek Harness
DeepSeek Harness requires Node.js ^22.19.0 or >=24.0.0 and pnpm on PATH.
dsh plugin --profile headless add github:rrrrrredy/intent-loop#v0.2.0-beta.5
Use web instead of headless for the Web profile. See the DeepSeek adapter guide for its session, storage, and uninstall boundaries.
Use
Ask in ordinary language:
Track the requirements I just gave you with Intent Loop.Show the current intent for this task.I changed my mind: the output must be a single HTML file.Keep the goal, but record that this result needs an implementation change.Export a short intent summary.Delete this task's Intent Loop data.
Codex also supports the manual routes $intent start, $intent show, $intent correct, $intent feedback, $intent export, $intent forget, and $intent off.
Data and privacy
The bundled runtime has no outbound network client. Durable state stays under the active host's local plugin data directory. The host supplies the current workspace; Intent Loop canonicalizes and hashes it for isolation and does not persist the raw project path in ledger events.
Default persistence stores atomic claims and minimal source references, not complete prompts, transcripts, workspace files, or tool output. Credential-pattern redaction is not comprehensive personal-information detection: personal data intentionally placed in a claim can remain. See the privacy policy, threat model, and security policy.
Uninstall
Codex:
codex plugin remove intent-loop@intent-loop
codex plugin marketplace remove intent-loop
DeepSeek Harness:
dsh plugin --profile headless remove dsh-intent-loop
Package removal and task-data deletion are separate operations. Ask Intent Loop to delete the task first if its local records must also be physically removed. Operating-system backups, snapshots, and copied exports remain outside the deletion boundary.
Develop and test
Codex package, Node.js 20+:
Set-Location .\plugins\intent-loop
npm ci
npm test
DeepSeek package, Node.js 22.19+ or 24+:
Set-Location ..\..
npm ci
npm test
npm run test:dsh-host
The host-smoke command creates a temporary DeepSeek home, installs the packed repository bundle, composes and boots the profile help path, removes the bundle, and deletes the temporary home. It does not require or use a model API key.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution requirements and distribution-and-submission.md for the two public package paths.
Release and evidence
License
Apache License 2.0. It permits commercial and private use, modification, and redistribution while retaining notices, and includes an explicit patent grant. See LICENSE, the Codex notices, and the DeepSeek package notices.
