goal-help

goal-help is a command for Claude Code from lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode. It costs 7 tokens per session (1,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help command for Goal Mode, a workflow for planning work, recording proof, claiming completion, and handling review decisions. It lists the available commands and recommended sequence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn Goal Mode commands, inspect the v3 workflow, and find the commands for current status, evidence, achievement, review requests, and verdicts.
Why use it?
It explains an unfamiliar goal-tracking workflow and shows which command to use at each stage.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the goal-mode plugin — 2 skills, 20 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn Goal Mode commands, inspect the v3 workflow, and find the commands for current status, evidence, achievement, review requests, and verdicts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install goal-mode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 20 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00007 $0.01435
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00144

Measured 8d ago against content hash b6e93687e453, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-help scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/goal-help.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal Mode plugin help

In v3.0+, the Stop hook is hint-only on lifecycle=pursuing by default. Drive the goal explicitly:

Command Purpose
/goal-mode:goal-current Show cursor task + AC coverage
/goal-mode:goal-evidence-add Add evidence for a criterion
/goal-mode:goal-achieve Claim achievement (advances cursor or → review-pending)
/goal-mode:goal-review-request Print reviewer dispatch template
/goal-mode:goal-submit-verdict Record reviewer verdict (GO/NOGO/REVISE)
/goal-mode:goal-as-builtin Emit text for piping into built-in /goal

Recommended workflow:

  1. /goal-mode:goal-current — see the task.
  2. Do the work in normal Claude Code mode.
  3. For each AC: /goal-mode:goal-evidence-add --criterion N --file path[:line] --note "...".
  4. /goal-mode:goal-achieve — claim achievement.
  5. If review-pending: /goal-mode:goal-review-request → dispatch reviewers via Agent({subagent_type, prompt})/goal-mode:goal-submit-verdict per verdict.

Legacy v2 tag-emission workflow remains supported under stopHookDriver: true config (see [docs/MIGRATION-v2-to-v3.md]).

Commands

Command Description
/goal-plan <mission> Build a hierarchical plan tree from scratch (LLM bootstrap). Lifecycle → draft.
/goal-plan-from-file <path> Convert an existing Markdown plan file into the goal-mode schema. Lifecycle → draft. Use this when you already have a plan in Markdown.
/goal-approve-plan Validate the draft and lock it. Lifecycle → approved.
/goal-start [--max-iter N] [--token-budget N] [--time-budget Nm|Nh] [--force] Begin pursuing. Lifecycle → pursuing. --force to overwrite an existing active goal.
/goal-status Show plan tree, cursor, budget, last events.
/goal-tree Render the active plan as an ASCII tree with status glyphs (✓/▶/🔵/⛔/·).
/goal-doctor [--fix] [--json] Diagnose health (state/tree, schema, backups, cursor, plugin pin, Stop-hook liveness, budget, event-log, retention). --fix applies safe auto-fixes. --json for machine output.
/goal-pause Lifecycle → paused. Stop hook exits cleanly.
/goal-resume Lifecycle → pursuing (refused if budget exhausted).
/goal-approve [--reason "..."] Manually issue GO for current review-pending node.
/goal-abandon --reason "..." Lifecycle → unmet (refused on terminal lifecycles).
/goal-clear [--archive] Remove active goal directory. PERMANENT — pass --archive to snapshot to .claude/goals/archive/<ts>-<goal_id>/ first.
/goal-help This message.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 89 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A b6e93687e453

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goal-help is a command published in the GitHub repository lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.