# Elsa Program Goal Drift Review

> Review whether Elsa-brain work is drifting from the shared program-goal planner or current program-goal state. Use when a user asks whether work is drifting, a thread reaches a third consecutive related work unit, recent work keeps deepening one local area, or a proposed task would change or split a program-goal bucket.

- Skill: `elsa-workflows/elsa-program-goal-drift-review` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add elsa-workflows/elsa-program-goal-drift-review`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/elsa-workflows/elsa-program-goal-drift-review/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: elsa-workflows (https://skillmd.com/u/elsa-workflows)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/elsa-workflows/elsa-program-goal-drift-review

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## User Input

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## Outline

1. Read `AGENTS.md`, especially source-of-truth layers and the program goals / drift guard.
2. Read `docs/skills/catalog.md#program-goal-drift-review`.
3. Inspect `docs/program-goals/` and identify the current program-goal state: a named bucket, `none/free-flow`, or temporarily `unknown/not-assessed`.
4. Identify recent short-term objectives and the next proposed objective.
5. Return a concise alignment note: continue in the current bucket, continue as `none/free-flow`, redirect to a more relevant bucket, or update/split/create a program goal.

Do not perform this review as a ritual at every fresh session start. If a report finding becomes planned durable work, add or move it to the relevant program-goal bucket before implementation, or explicitly keep it `none/free-flow`.