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.

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

It explains an unfamiliar goal-tracking workflow and shows which command to use at each stage.

goal-help — Command for Claude Code by lokafinnsw

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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/lokafinnsw/claude-code-goal-mode/goal-help.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00007	$0.01435
Opus 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00574
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00001	$0.00287
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00144

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b6e93687e453, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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

v3 Explicit CLI Verbs (recommended workflow)

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:

/goal-mode:goal-current — see the task.
Do the work in normal Claude Code mode.
For each AC: /goal-mode:goal-evidence-add --criterion N --file path[:line] --note "...".
/goal-mode:goal-achieve — claim achievement.
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.

2mo 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 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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