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v2.11: Eight New Keywords — Amendment, Metric, Contact, Deadline, and More

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IntentText Team

v2.11 adds eight keywords that close the gap between IntentText and the real documents organizations produce every day: amendment, metric, contact, deadline, def, figure, signline, and cite.

The amendment story​

Frozen documents have a problem. After you seal a contract, reality changes. Payment terms get renegotiated. Scopes expand. Parties are replaced. Until v2.11, your only option was to create a new document.

The amendment: keyword gives frozen documents a formal amendment path:

amendment: Payment terms revised
  | ref: Amendment #1
  | section: Payment Terms
  | was: Net 30
  | now: Net 15
  | by: Ahmed Al-Rashid
  | at: 2026-03-07T09:00:00Z

Amendments are recorded in the trust history. They reference the section they modify, capture what changed, and track who authorized the change. The original document remains sealed — the amendment sits alongside it as an auditable record.

intenttext amend contract.it --section "Payment Terms" --was "Net 30" --now "Net 15" --ref "Amendment #1"

This is how legal teams actually work. Contracts get amended, not rewritten.

The metric story​

Organizations measure things. Revenue, expenses, conversion rates, uptime. Until now, these numbers lived in spreadsheets or dashboards — separate from the documents that give them context.

metric: Revenue | value: $4.2M | target: $4.0M | status: above | trend: up
metric: Customer Churn | value: 2.8% | target: 3.0% | status: below | trend: stable
metric: NPS Score | value: 72 | target: 65 | status: above | trend: up

Now you can query metrics across all your reports:

intenttext query ./reports --type metric --format table
MetricValueTargetStatus
Revenue$4.2M$4.0Mabove
Customer Churn2.8%3.0%below
NPS Score7265above

Your quarterly reports become a queryable dashboard. No BI tool required.

The contact story​

Every organization has contacts scattered across documents — in contracts, proposals, invoices, HR files. Finding "everyone at Acme Corp" means opening dozens of files.

contact: Ahmed Al-Rashid | role: CEO | email: ahmed@acme.com | org: Acme Corp | phone: +1-555-0100

One query:

intenttext query ./company --type contact --format csv > contacts.csv

Your documents become a contact directory.

The deadline story​

Contracts have deadlines. Projects have milestones. Policies have renewal dates. These dates are critical — missed deadlines have consequences.

deadline: Phase 1 delivery | date: 2026-04-30 | consequence: Penalty clause applies
deadline: Contract renewal | date: 2026-12-31 | authority: COO

Query them:

intenttext query ./company --type deadline --sort date:asc --format table

Your document folder becomes a deadline tracker. Sort by date, filter by authority, export to CSV. No project management tool required for the basics.

Four more keywords​

  • def: — Term definitions with meaning. Build glossaries, define jargon, create reference sections.
  • figure: — Images with captions and numbering. figure: Architecture diagram | src: arch.png | number: 1
  • signline: — Signature lines for print. signline: | role: CEO | date: true | line: true
  • cite: — Formal citations with source, author, and date.

The vision​

We think AI agents will produce .it files alongside .md files. When an agent generates a contract, a report, or an invoice, the output should be structured — not just readable. IntentText gives agents a format where every block has a keyword, every property is named, and every document is queryable.

Eight new keywords. 718 tests passing. The format keeps growing because documents keep needing more.

See the full v2.11 reference →