Goal Prompting

Use this skill to create prompts that work well with /goal or any long-running coding agent that must continue until a concrete outcome is reached.

The key idea: a goal prompt is not just an initial instruction. It is the agent's exit criteria. If the criteria are fuzzy, the agent cannot reliably know when to stop.

Core Principles

Design every goal around these seven checks:

1. Verifiable completion criteria: define what must be true before the agent stops.
2. Starting guidance: give useful pointers, likely files, tools, constraints, and known risks.
3. Progress measurement: state how the agent should measure improvement or parity.
4. Realistic environment: specify the environment that counts as valid proof.
5. Visual caution: treat images as context, not the only success criterion.
6. Progress tracking: ask for durable checkpoints when the work may take a long time.
7. Cleanup and review: require reflection, removal of failed attempts, and final validation.

Workflow