Intent Wizard
The Intent Wizard is the front door to Midcore Studio. You describe the outcome you want in plain language. Studio asks a few clarifying questions only when they matter, drafts a short editable plan, and lets you launch the full pipeline with one click.
Why a wizard, not a form
Most teams know what they want before they know how to express it as a tool, a model, or a workflow. The wizard meets you at that level: one text box, one outcome. Anything that can be inferred is inferred; anything that needs you is asked, briefly.
The four steps
- Describe the outcome — Type one or two sentences about what you want to happen — a feature, a fix, a refactor, a release, a research task. No tool selection, no model picker.
- Answer a few clarifying cards — The wizard surfaces only the questions it needs to proceed: target surface, scope guardrails, sensitive areas. Sensible defaults are pre-selected, so most prompts only require one or two clicks.
- Review the plan — You see a short, editable plan with clear steps and the gates that will run. Edit the wording, reorder steps, drop a step, or add a constraint before launching.
- Launch and watch it ship — One click runs the plan through the full pipeline. The same workspace shows live status, gate approvals, evidence, and release readiness — everything exportable for audit.
Edit the plan, don’t over-edit the prompt
You will get better results from a one-line prompt plus an edited plan than from a multi-paragraph prompt. The plan is the contract — that is the place to be specific.
What the wizard typically asks
- Where the change should happen (which surface, area, or workspace).
- What is in scope and what is off-limits (paths or systems to leave untouched).
- How autonomous the run should be (review-every-step vs run-to-completion within guardrails).
- How to verify the result (which gates apply and what counts as done).
What it never does on your behalf
- It never picks irreversible actions silently — destructive operations always require an explicit approval card.
- It never rewrites scope you locked in the plan; if it needs to change scope, it pauses and asks.
- It never bypasses gates or evidence requirements that your project configuration declares as required.
Related
Quickstart · Studio workspace · Outcome compiler · Gates & evidence