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@intended/open-intent-layer

Open Intent Layer — the open taxonomy for classifying AI agent actions across 14 enterprise domains.

The Open Intent Layer provides a shared language for describing what AI agents intend to do. Every action an AI agent takes — deploying code, processing invoices, escalating tickets — maps to a stable intent family and category. This enables consistent verification, authorization, auditing, and policy evaluation across any AI agent platform.

The 14 Open Intent Layer Domains

Code Domain Categories Description
OIL-100 Software Development 7 Build, test, deploy, release, and govern code
OIL-200 Security Operations 7 Detect, respond to, and remediate security threats
OIL-300 Infrastructure 7 Provision, scale, and maintain compute and network systems
OIL-400 Cloud Operations 6 SaaS management, platform ops, multi-cloud governance
OIL-500 Financial Operations 8 Budgets, payments, procurement, treasury, reporting
OIL-600 Supply Chain 5 Sourcing, logistics, vendor management, inventory
OIL-700 People Operations 6 Hiring, onboarding, workforce management
OIL-800 Revenue Operations 5 Pipeline management, deal execution, renewals
OIL-900 Customer Experience 5 Support, success, satisfaction measurement
OIL-1000 Enterprise Operations 6 Strategy, planning, governance, cross-functional ops
OIL-1100 Service Delivery 4 Fulfillment, SLA adherence, service operations
OIL-1200 Risk Management 5 Assessment, mitigation, compliance, business continuity
OIL-1300 Product Operations 4 Roadmap, discovery, launch coordination, lifecycle
OIL-1400 Asset Management 5 Inventory tracking, maintenance, lifecycle, disposal

Total: 80 categories across 14 domains.

Installation

npm install @intended/open-intent-layer

Usage

import { getDomain, getCategory, getDomainForCategory, allCategoryCodes } from "@intended/open-intent-layer";

// Look up a domain
const secops = getDomain("OIL-200");
console.log(secops?.name); // "Security Operations"

// Look up a category
const threatDetection = getCategory("OIL-201");
console.log(threatDetection?.name); // "Threat Detection"

// Find which domain a category belongs to
const domain = getDomainForCategory("OIL-503");
console.log(domain?.name); // "Financial Operations"

// List all category codes
const codes = allCategoryCodes();
console.log(codes.length); // 80

Access the full taxonomy

import oil from "@intended/open-intent-layer";

for (const domain of oil.domains) {
  console.log(`${domain.code} ${domain.name} (${domain.categories.length} categories)`);
  for (const cat of domain.categories) {
    console.log(`  ${cat.code} ${cat.name}`);
  }
}

Why the Open Intent Layer?

AI agents are taking actions across every enterprise domain — from deploying code to processing payments to managing infrastructure. Without a shared taxonomy, every organization invents its own classification, making cross-system policy enforcement and auditing impossible.

The Open Intent Layer provides:

  • Universal classification — A common language for AI agent actions across all enterprise domains
  • Verification anchoring — Runtime decisions can reference stable family codes instead of brittle action strings
  • Audit consistency — Every decision log entry maps to a stable taxonomy family
  • Cross-platform interoperability — Different AI agent frameworks can share the same intent language

Reference Implementation

The Open Intent Layer is used by the Intended runtime reference implementation for intent interpretation, authority routing, and audit evidence anchoring.

License

Apache-2.0