Intents

The detection layer that decides which built-in capabilities your app needs. Sibling to /docs/capabilities, which describes the capabilities themselves.

How Detection Runs

After every code generation or refinement, the intent detector scores your code against every capability definition. Each capability declares hints (keywords, code patterns, UI hooks); a match adds to that capability's confidence score.

Capabilities that cross the confidence threshold are marked enabled and their SDKs are injected on save. Lower-confidence detections are surfaced in the Capabilities panel as suggestions.

Confidence Scores

Each detection emits a confidence between 0 and 1. Higher means more code patterns matched. You can see the score per capability in the Capabilities panel.

The score is descriptive, not authoritative. Even at high confidence you can disable a capability; the SDK comes off on the next save.

Overriding Detection

Open the Capabilities panel from the editor sidebar. Each detected capability has a toggle. Switching it off removes the SDK from your app on the next save; switching it on adds the SDK even when the detector did not pick it up.

If you find yourself overriding the same way every time (always enable Auth, always disable Voice), mention it in the prompt for new apps so detection runs in your preferred direction from the start.

When to Care

Most of the time you should not care. The detector is right often enough that you can ignore it. Read this page when:

You are adding a feature and want to confirm the detector picked it up before generating.
You are removing a feature and want to make sure the SDK comes off.
You are debugging an unexpected SDK in your generated app.

For the list of capabilities themselves, see Capabilities.

FAQs

What is an intent?▾

A signal extracted from your prompt + generated code that tells GenMB which built-in capabilities (auth, file storage, vector DB, voice, billing, etc.) your app needs. Intents drive which SDKs get auto-injected.

How is this different from /docs/capabilities?▾

Capabilities are the things that get enabled (auth, billing, etc.). Intents are the detection layer that decides which capabilities apply to your app. Most users only need to read /docs/capabilities; this page is for when you want to override or debug detection.

When would I override the detection?▾

When the AI guessed wrong. Maybe your app does not need auth but the detector turned it on, or vice versa. Toggle the capability in the Capabilities panel and the SDKs re-inject on the next save.

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