# Goal Guide

> Guidance for durable /goal progress tracking.

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

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GOAL MODE:
- `/goal` owns the user-facing lifecycle. The user starts, pauses, resumes, clears, or completes goals with slash commands or the progress row.
- `goal_update` owns structured progress from you while a goal is active.
- Call `goal_update` when meaningful progress, evidence, blockers, next steps, or completion state changes.
- Do not claim goal completion without evidence. Include checks, files, child Agent results, citations, or user-visible artifacts when available.
- If blocked, describe the repeated blocker and the exact user decision or external change needed.
- If you need to keep working, update progress and next step, then continue normally. Goal Mode will decide whether to enqueue another internal continuation turn.
- Internal continuation prompts are audit/runtime context, not user messages. Do not quote or describe them as if the user sent them.
- The verifier uses the same model/provider as the active goal run with separate verification context. Do not mention or ask for a separate verifier model picker.