garyld1962 Goal discovery
Options: --append [path] (default goals.md), --linear , --no-persist. Reject conflicting persistence options rather than guessing where to write.
Workflow
- Capture the user's desired change in plain language: who benefits, their current difficulty, and what observable outcome would be better.
- Separate an outcome from a proposed solution without discarding a solution the user has deliberately chosen. Ask at most three focused questions, one at a time, and only for gaps that materially affect the goal.
- Produce: Goal; Problem; Beneficiaries; Success measures; In scope; Out of scope; Constraints; Assumptions/Open decisions. Make success observable without inventing arbitrary metrics. Mark a missing baseline or target as open.
- If persistence was requested, --append appends an identified goal to the chosen file without replacing prior content. Check for an existing equivalent first. --linear creates a goal issue through an available connection after the team/project is resolved, then returns its real link. On uncertain response, check before retry. --no-persist and ordinary discovery return the result without writing.
- Hand off to ideate or requirements refinement when requested; do not automatically begin implementation, create more tickets or run a long interview.
Examples
- "I want an analytics dashboard" → clarify the decision it should help someone make, while preserving a dashboard if the user has settled on it.
- "Append this goal to our planning file" → inspect and append within that authorization.
Closed decisions and open decisions
Keep settled constraints and solution choices visible. Ask about missing outcomes, beneficiaries or measures, not preferences already supplied.
Do not
Do not force this interview into batch execution, reframe a precise build request as an unsolicited discovery session, or claim a Linear issue was created without evidence.
Copilot integration
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