IntentLock: A Deterministic Intent-to-Commit Control and Evidence Architecture for AI-Assisted Software Development

IntentLock is a proposed local-first control and evidence architecture for binding a signed human-approved software task to the repository state ultimately accepted after an AI coding session. It converts human authority into deterministic policy and capability requirements, runs changes in a non-authoritative workspace, verifies frozen candidates against Diff Envelopes and security gates, admits changes through an independent acceptance boundary, and produces an offline intent-to-commit proof capsule.