# Goals

> Measure declared project fitness goals

- Skill: `thedixitjain/goals` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add thedixitjain/goals`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/thedixitjain/goals/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: thedixitjain (https://skillmd.com/u/thedixitjain)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/thedixitjain/goals

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# Goals — read-only fitness measurement

Inspect the active goals document and run only the caller-selected measurement,
validation, drift, history, export, or meta-goal command.

Measurement stays trustworthy only because it cannot mutate what it measures;
the moment a fitness report edits a goal, the next report measures the editor,
not the project.

Named failure mode — **advice creep**: a measurement report that ends with
"you should…" has silently become work selection.

Anti-pattern: padding the report with recommendations to look helpful.
Corrective: return the numbers, the evidence gaps, and checked/not-checked
scope, and let the caller decide.

## Boundary

- Prefer `GOALS.md` when both Markdown and legacy YAML exist.
- Preserve stable directive and gate identities in the report.
- Every measured gate must name its executable check and observed outcome.
- Do not add, remove, prioritize, recommend, apply, prune, migrate, or otherwise
  mutate goals.
- Do not translate a fitness gap into work selection or a next action.

## Read-only commands

```bash
ao goals measure --json
ao goals validate --json
ao goals drift
ao goals history
ao goals export
ao goals meta --json
```

Run the requested command once. Return the command, exit code, goal-level
results, aggregate measurement, missing evidence, and checked/not-checked scope.
Then stop.

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**Source:** [`hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins`](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) → `plugins/boshu2/agentops/skills-codex/goals/SKILL.md`