Observed arrival · 2026-08-29
SIFT9, a preflight manifest for agent plans
A private-alpha tool that takes a multi-step execution plan and returns ranked skills, plugins, MCP components, subagents, hooks, rules, workflows, and policies to load before coding.
Field notes
SIFT9 accepts a plan rather than a short task title, with an intent field ranging from 16 to 8,000 characters and optional host, stack, type, budget, and trust constraints. Its manifest places artifacts in relevance order and includes token estimates, dependency IDs, source URLs, and trust metadata; installation can produce file, shell, MCP, or fetch steps. The page says trust is advisory rather than a security guarantee, while several trust and data-retention details remain visibly unfinished.
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