Stop Reading. Start Measuring. Your Trust Debt in 30 Seconds.

npx intentguard

That's it. No install. No signup. No bullshit.

⚠️  Trust Debt: 5,847 (Bottom 20% globally)
🔴 Broken Promises: 234 features documented but not implemented
🟡 Hidden Features: 567 implemented but not documented
📊 Your rank: #8,472 / 10,000 measured repos

Comparison:
- React: 127 (You're 46x worse 😬)
- Your last commit: +73 (getting worse)
- Industry average: 3,200 (You're trash)

QUICK WINS (Fix in under 5 minutes):
1. Delete zombie.md (-500 Trust Debt)
2. Update README line 47 (-300 Trust Debt)
3. Remove old API docs (-200 Trust Debt)
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Total possible: -1,000 (Jump 2,000 ranks!)

Gods Among Us (Lowest Trust Debt)

1. 🥇 signal-protocol: 47 units - @maxdeviant
2. 🥈 preact: 89 units - @developit
3. 🥉 solidjs: 112 units - @ryansolid

Brave Souls (Highest Trust Debt)

1. 💀 enterprise-legacy: 14,827 units - @anonymous
2. ⚰️ my-startup-mvp: 12,234 units - @founder
3. 🔥 that-client-project: 9,847 units - @consultant

The Grinders (Most Improved This Week)

1. 📈 @sarah_codes: 5,000 → 500 (-90%)
2. 💪 @dev_mike: 8,000 → 2,000 (-75%)
3. 🎯 @typescript_joe: 3,000 → 1,000 (-67%)

Your move.

Can you beat these records?

• Fastest to sub-1000: 4 hours (@speedcoder)
• Most improved in one commit: -3,847 (@documentation_hero)
• First to zero: Still unclaimed (bounty: IntentGuard hoodie)

Your quick wins are waiting:

npx intentguard --quick-wins

# Shows exactly what to fix
# Sorted by impact
# With file locations
# And suggested fixes

Three things happened this week:

1. A Stripe engineer added their Trust Debt badge to LinkedIn
2. A startup CTO asked about Trust Debt in an interview
3. A VC mentioned it in a funding call

The signal: Developers who measure drift ship better code.

The badge that matters:

[![Trust Debt](https://img.shields.io/badge/Trust%20Debt-500-green)]

Sub-500 = You care about craft
Sub-1000 = You're professional
Above 5000 = You're living dangerously

Feel that? The slow creep in your stomach when you open a file you wrote six months ago and it looks foreign. The grip of dread when onboarding someone new because you know the docs will betray you. Your body already knows the codebase is falling apart. It has been bracing for impact for months, absorbing micro-shocks of confusion you dismissed as normal.

Here is the math behind what your nervous system already detected:

Here's what that means:

• Day 1: 1,000 Trust Debt
• Day 30: 1,090 (seems fine)
• Day 365: 3,000 (uh oh)
• Day 730: 9,000 (unfixable)

Without measurement, you don't even know it's happening.

With measurement, you can stop it.

Your Trust Debt reveals something bigger:

Code Drift → Documentation Lies → Confusion → More Drift
        ↑                                      ↓
        ←────────── The Doom Loop ────────────←

This same pattern exists in:

• Your AI models (hallucinating more each day)
• Your business processes (strategy vs reality)
• Your entire organization (becoming something you didn't intend)

The companies that win: Have Pattern Infrastructure
The companies that lose: Don't even know they're drifting

Right Now (30 seconds)

npx intentguard

If You're Hooked (2 minutes)

npm install -g intentguard
intentguard badge >> README.md

If You're Serious (5 minutes)

npm install --save-dev intentguard
echo "intentguard check" >> .github/workflows/ci.yml

If You Want to Lead (10 minutes)

intentguard init
intentguard set-threshold 500
intentguard compete @facebook/react

Is your Trust Debt going up or down?

If you don't know, you're already behind.

If it's going up, you're getting worse.

If it's going down, you're rare.

If it's under 500, you're elite.

Tweet with #MyTrustDebt

Include:

• Your score
• Your rank
• Your quick wins
• Your challenge to others

Watch what happens.

The Truth About Pattern Infrastructure

Every business has invisible patterns:

• Code patterns (Trust Debt reveals these)
• Process patterns (meetings reveal these)
• Decision patterns (delays reveal these)

Companies with Pattern Infrastructure: See the patterns, fix the drift, win the game

Companies without it: Drift 0.3% daily until they're unrecognizable

IntentGuard is step one. Seeing your code's patterns.

Step two is seeing your organization's patterns.

Step three is fixing them before they kill you.

But it all starts with one command.

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P.S. - Still reading? Your competition just measured their Trust Debt and started fixing it. You're already 5 minutes behind.

P.P.S. - The first 100 repos to get under 200 Trust Debt join our Hall of Fame. Forever. Only 3 spots left.

P.P.P.S. - Yes, we have infinite Trust Debt. Yes, that's the point. We're building Pattern Infrastructure for everyone. Join us or watch us. Either way, run the command.

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