dont-summarize-without-a-goal

dont-summarize-without-a-goal is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for asking an AI to extract information for a specific purpose instead of requesting a general summary. The goal can be a decision, audience, set of metrics, deadlines, or risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps pull targeted details such as costs, service commitments, deadlines, or risks from long documents.
Why use it?
A general summary may spend space on background while leaving out the facts needed for the decision.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit It helps pull targeted details such as costs, service commitments, deadlines, or risks from long documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/dont-summarize-without-a-goal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill dont-summarize-without-a-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 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 $0.00023 $0.01070
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00107

Measured yesterday against content hash 7f64d96e8dcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dont-summarize-without-a-goal 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/dont-summarize-without-a-goal/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Don't Summarize Without a Goal (Goal-Directed Extraction) (AI Skill)

Overview

Typing "Summarize this document" is one of the most common - and least effective - prompts in generative AI. Because the model doesn't know why you are reading the document, it defaults to a balanced, generic overview that often omits the exact metrics, dates, or risks you actually care about.

The Goal-Directed Extraction Protocol anchors the AI to a specific persona, decision objective, or lens before reading, ensuring 100% of the output is actionable.


Generic Summaries vs. Goal-Directed Extraction

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Generic vs. Goal-Directed Flow              │
│                                                             │
│  Generic Prompt ("Summarize this 40-page RFP"):             │
│  • AI writes 5 paragraphs summarizing company history,     │
│    introduction, high-level mission, and team bios.         │
│  • 0% of the financial terms or deadlines are highlighted. │
│                                                             │
│  Goal-Directed Prompt ("Extract costs, SLAs, & deadlines"): │
│  • AI outputs a 1-page structured breakdown:                │
│    1. Pricing tiers & setup fees                            │
│    2. Hard delivery milestones & penalties                  │
│    3. Uptime commitments & SLA credits                      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Master Goal-Directed Prompt Templates

Pattern 1: The Persona-Driven Lens

Use when analyzing reports for different stakeholders:

Read the attached document: [ATTACH REPORT / PASTE TEXT].

Summarize this document through the lens of a **Chief Financial Officer (CFO)**.
Focus exclusively on:
1. All hard costs, recurring fees, and margin impacts.
2. Capital expenditure (CapEx) vs. Operational expenditure (OpEx) commitments.
3. Financial risk exposure or liability caps.

Ignore background narratives and general marketing descriptions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. yesterday Changed · -16 tokens per session 7f64d96e8dcd
  2. 7d ago First seen · 107 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 34bc4ea5c8df

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dont-summarize-without-a-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.

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