When agents can build anything, intent is everything.
Pathmode turns customer evidence into executable intent specs that carry your reasoning through the handoff, so coding agents build what you decided and the merge can prove it.
Why we call this intent engineering →
Start with one product decision
One or two sentences is enough. Pathmode pushes back before anything is saved. No account needed to start.
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Coding agents build whatever they are handed. Six deterministic checks name what is missing before the handoff, and the repair for each failure. Paste a ticket, a doc, or a few sentences in the third tab.
title: "Checkout"
objective: "Make the checkout experience seamless and intuitive"
outcomes:
- Checkout feels faster
- Users are happier
constraints:
- fast
- secure
edge cases:
(none)
verification:
- test it
✗ Preflight failed. 6/6 checks blocking.
✗ Objective is too vague — name the actor and the concrete failure they hit today.
✗ Title is missing or generic — name the intent in a short, specific noun phrase.
✗ Outcomes are not all measurable — at least two-thirds need a testable or observable threshold.
✗ No hard constraint — name at least one thing that must never happen.
✗ No edge case with a defined expected behavior.
✗ No concrete verification — describe at least one check specific enough to run.
This verdict is computed in your browser, right now, by the same deterministic gate that scores every Pathmode spec. Nothing above is mocked.
One continuous loop, so the why a change matters survives the handoff into AI-assisted delivery, and what the build reveals flows back into the spec instead of getting lost between discovery and review.
Paste a PRD, positioning page, or notes and Pathmode extracts your product context, vision, audience, north star, and guardrails, with a strength meter that shows how grounded it is. Tickets, quotes, and metrics land alongside it, organized so real friction, not the loudest voice, shapes the brief your agent receives.
Objective, outcomes, constraints, and edge cases, captured while the why is still intact. Pathmode reads your connected codebase as you draft, so intent answers to what already exists.
Send structured intent to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Linear, Jira, or your MCP workflow, so execution starts with context instead of a lossy prompt. Your developers never open Pathmode: their agents pull the current spec over MCP, so nobody builds from a version someone pasted last week.
When the pull request merges, Pathmode reads the real diff, grades it against the spec, and cites the files behind each judgment, so shipped is a graded consequence. And when the build contradicts the spec, the agent writes back a finding: what the spec assumed versus what the build revealed. That finding rides into the next agent's prompt and can flip a check to failing, so the spec converges instead of repeating a dead premise.
Collect the signal in one place, then sequence the build by what's ready and what's blocked, with the why intact the whole way.
Friction, quotes, observations, metrics, and requests in one place, deduped and tagged, each one staying attached to the outcomes it justifies, so the loudest voice doesn't win by default.
Specs move from Draft to Verified, with dependencies and critical path made visible before work starts, so you sequence by what's actually ready. When a build contradicts the spec, the finding comes back as a flag on the card, so you correct the spec, not just the code.
Coding agents are told to name the intent on the branch or in the pull request, so nobody has to remember. When it merges, Pathmode reads the real diff, grades it against the spec, and cites the files behind each judgment. Explicit failures open findings; what the diff cannot establish stays unresolved in the verdict and costs the score. The status moves to shipped as a consequence, not as the point.
The verdict answers one question: did the code do what the spec asked. Whether the spec asked for the right thing is a judgment call, and it stays yours.
fix/email-verification → main
Implements email retry logic with SMS fallback.
Resolves PAT-abc12345-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890
Merged by @engineer · 2 commits · 4 files changed
Pathmode is for builders — PMs, engineers, designers, founders, anyone turning evidence into product change. The shared surface for intent, so what reaches the agent is aligned, evidenced, and worth building.
Turn evidence and product judgment into specs AI agents can execute.
Raise the quality of what enters AI-assisted implementation before it hits review.
See research survive the handoff into AI-assisted delivery.
Pull friction from support and analytics. Push agent-ready specs to Linear, Cursor, and Claude Code. Pathmode sits in the middle so intent travels with the work.
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Stop scaling rework with faster code generation. Give agents the product intent they need before implementation begins.
One conversation, instead of a week of back-and-forth
Insights on intent engineering, agentic workflows, and the future of product development.
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