Project: SpecStory, Inc. / goal-rider-author. "Draft a goal+rider document pair to brief the next agentic turn on a project."

License: Apache License 2.0. Full license text is in LICENSE alongside this file.

Snapshot: Frozen copy of Greg Ceccarelli's published skill as of 2026-07-18. The maintained version lives upstream and may have evolved since this snapshot.

Goal & Rider Author

A two-document pattern for briefing an autonomous coding agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, or any agentic harness) on the next round of work. The goal is the ≤4000-char spine: what to do, what to read first, the posture, the verification, the stop conditions. The rider holds the prescriptive detail: data schemas, phase plans, depth-test names, verb signatures, error footers, out-of-scope lists.

The pattern's superpower is that the goal stays small enough to paste into a Codex /goal or a Claude run prompt, while the rider can be arbitrarily detailed without bloating the executor's working memory.