speckit.assess.intake
Captures a raw idea (text, URL, ticket or codebase pointer) as a normalised intake note, without judging it yet.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf / Devin, Cline
- Source
- github/spec-kit @ c00dc0551583
- Path
- extensions/assess/commands/speckit.assess.intake.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Requirements interviews
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# Intake an Idea Capture a raw idea — however rough — and normalize it into a single **intake note** at `.specify/assessments/<slug>/intake.md`. This is the front door of the assessment pipeline: it records *what the idea is and where it came from* without judging it yet. Later stages (`__SPECKIT_COMMAND_ASSESS_RESEARCH__`, `__SPECKIT_COMMAND_ASSESS_DEFINE__`, `__SPECKIT_COMMAND_ASSESS_SHAPE__`, `__SPECKIT_COMMAND_ASSESS_DECIDE__`) build on it, and only survivors reach `__SPECKIT_COMMAND_SPECIFY__`. Intake **captures; it does not evaluate or solutionize.** No feasibility verdicts, no design. Just a clean, faithful record of the idea and its origin. ## User Input ```text $ARGUMENTS ``` The user input is the idea and (optionally) a slug. Treat it as one of: 1. **Pasted text** — a one-liner, a paragraph, a stakeholder ask, meeting notes, a ticket body. 2. **A URL** — a link to an issue, doc, thread, or page describing the idea. Apply the **URL Trust Policy** below before fetching. 3. **A codebase pointer** — phrasing like "an idea for this repo" or a path. Read enough of the repository to record what the idea relates to. 4. **A mix** of the above. …