Intent-Driven Development turns ambiguous or high-impact product and engineering changes into scoped, verifiable acceptance criteria before or alongside implementation. It helps an agent inspect available context, expose genuine ambiguity, and choose verification methods that fit the work and its risk profile without turning specification into ceremony. Reach for it when a user asks to clarify a feature, define acceptance criteria, de-risk a security, data, migration, or integration change, prepare implementation requirements for another agent, or make a complex request testable.