/goal-design — Validated Intent Packet Authoring

Loop position: pre-discovery adapter for move 1 of the operating loop. It turns a human goal into a checked intent.md + driver.md packet that /discovery and /plan can consume without relying on chat context.

Execute this workflow. Do not only describe it.

Constraints

• Keep intent.md and driver.md as the contract of record and the dispatch prompt as a pointer only, because chat or prompt paraphrases drift from validated intent.
• Run the deterministic checker before independent validation and use mark-validated for status transitions, because hand-edited status or stale digests can falsely claim readiness.
• Route every plain REFUTED verdict directly through repeated AUTO-REDO; do not consult a helper or raise an andon unless the circuit breaker trips. A breaker trip enters HOLD and gets exactly one bounded helper consultation: UNSTUCK resumes the automatic loop, while ESCALATE reaches a human. Refusal-lane work, explicit judgment, and exhausted budgets go directly to a human because routine blockers are not andons.

Purpose

Use /goal-design when the goal is important enough to leave chat but not yet ready to become beads. The skill writes .agents/goal-design/<slug>/intent.md and driver.md, refreshes the driver digest, runs the packet checker, and requires an independent validation verdict before the packet drives work.