Intent

Intent

  Coding agents that plan, then build in parallel.
  An open-source workspace where specialist agents write the spec and hand the work to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others, on your own machines or in the cloud.

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What is Intent?

Intent is a workspace for running many coding agents on one codebase at once. You describe what you want; a specialist agent reads the code, writes a living spec with diagrams and mock-ups when the work is big, and splits it into tasks that other agents build in parallel. You review the diff and merge.

There are already many ways to run coding agents, and most of them tie you to one model vendor, one cloud, or both. Intent works the other way round:

- Specialists that plan and delegate. Start a workspace with any specialist. The Developer, for example, does small tasks itself and plans bigger ones in a spec before delegating. Intent ships with more specialists, and you can write your own.
- Bring your own agents. Use the coding agents and subscriptions you already have, side by side in one workspace. Intent doesn't proxy or resell model access.
- Bring your own compute. Run agents on your laptop, on other machines you own (a Mac for the Xcode build, a Windows PC for the Windows checks), or in cloud sandboxes on E2B or your own VMs.
- Built for teams. Share a workspace, talk it through in one discussion with the agents, and get a ping on your phone when an agent needs you.
- Open source and local-first. Apache 2.0, no product analytics or crash reporting, and your workspaces live on your machine.

Get started

1. Install Intent. Download it from intentapp.dev for macOS, Windows or Linux; it picks the right build for your computer and bundles everything it needs. Other versions…