Intent Engine is an AI-driven intent recognition and intelligent routing system with a built-in Web management dashboard, providing accurate prompt classification for multi-agent workflows.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install intent-engine
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install intent-engine using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Intent Engine?
Intent Engine is a robust, lightweight Python-based routing system designed to analyze, classify, and redirect user prompts to the correct AI execution path. By utilizing a hybrid scoring algorithm that combines keyword matching, regular expressions, priority weighting, and text-length penalties, it dynamically categorizes inputs into four primary domains: Code (CODE), Knowledge (KNOW), Task (TASK), and Chat (CHAT).
Integrating this tool with Openclaw Skills allows developers to build highly responsive, multi-agent architectures that process queries intelligently. The inclusion of a comprehensive Web UI dashboard provides real-time testing, performance metrics, and hot-reloadable intent management without requiring system restarts.
Intent Engine Use Cases
- Dynamically routing user requests to specialized AI sub-agents (e.g., forwarding code requests to a developer sub-agent and generic chat to a conversational agent).
- Running high-throughput query classification pipelines using batch classification APIs.
- Building a visual playground to test, debug, and fine-tune classification rules, keyword weights, and regex patterns interactively.
- Optimizing conversational context-switching in intelligent customer service, technical support, and AI developer assistant setups.
How Intent Engine Works
- Input Reception: The engine receives a text prompt via the REST API or Web interface.
- Multi-Strategy Evaluation: It runs concurrent checks against defined keyword weights and high-precision regular expressions.
- Score Computation & Penalty Correction: A scoring algorithm calculates raw values, adjusting for short texts (penalized by 20%) or long texts (boosted by 10%).
- Confidence Normalization: Raw scores are mapped to a normalized 0.0 to 1.0 confidence range.
- Intelligent Routing: The system maps the final confidence score to the best-matching category and suggests top-K backup strategies, instantly routing to the designated skill.
Intent Engine Setup
To set up and run Intent Engine within your Openclaw Skills ecosystem, follow these simple installation steps:
# Navigate to the intent-engine directory
cd intent-engine
# Install the required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run the server
python run.py
Once running, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:5700 to access the visual management dashboard.
Intent Engine Data Schema & Taxonomy
Intent Engine manages its data and configuration seamlessly through localized storage.
Directory Structure
| Path | Description |
|---|---|
intent_engine/engine.py |
Core classification logic and scoring algorithm |
intent_engine/storage.py |
JSON-based persistent storage handler |
intent_engine/models.py |
Structured Python data models for intents |
intent_engine/api.py |
Flask REST API endpoints |
static/index.html |
Frontend UI assets |
data/intents.json |
Hot-reloadable persistent configuration (auto-generated) |
Classification Schema (Primary Categories)
- CODE (Color: Blue
#3b82f6): Software engineering, testing, review, refactoring, and debugging tasks. - KNOW (Color: Purple
#8b5cf6): Information inquiries, tutorials, comparisons, conceptual queries, and suggestions. - TASK (Color: Yellow
#f59e0b): Automation scripts, file systems operations, shell command executions, and task scheduling. - CHAT (Color: Green
#10b981): Greeting, conversational dialogue, clarification prompts, and social pleasantries.
Intent Engine Advanced Features
- Hot-Reloadable Configurations: CRUD operations performed through REST API or the Web UI take effect immediately without needing to restart the backend application.
- Hybrid Evaluation Math: Blends high-precision regex pattern match boosts (
* 4.0) with adjustable weighted keyword scoring (* 2.0 * weight) and static priority offsets (* 0.05). - Interactive Web Dashboard: Includes key-value pair metrics, real-time query test modules with circular confidence charts, and bulk JSON import/export utilities.
- Seamless Multi-Agent Integration: Designed to act as the traffic controller or primary router before handing off execution to complementary Openclaw Skills like
skill-creator,workflow-verifier, ormempalace-assistant.
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