The Goal — constraint-first automation

Named after Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal. The lesson this skill encodes: a local optimum is not a global one. Automating something that feels productive but is not the system's constraint produces no throughput gain. Most wasted automation effort dies here. This skill finds the constraint first, then points exactly one automation at it.

When to use

Use before building anything, and during reviews:

• "What should I automate?" / "Where do I point my agents?" / "What's the highest-leverage thing right now?"
• The user is about to build a Claude Code skill, Goal, loop, schedule, or workflow and isn't sure it matters.
• The user has a pile of half-useful automations and feels busy but stuck.
• A periodic review of where agent effort is going.

If the user already knows their constraint with confidence and just wants to build, skip the diagnosis and go straight to Step 4 (elevate) and the Recommendation.

The core distinction (state this early)