goal-judge

goal-judge is a skill for Claude Code from bonfire-systems/goalkeeper. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review gate that checks whether a software task meets its written completion contract after its validator passes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to approve completed goals, reject them with a fix list, or review an active goal without changing its progress.
Why use it?
A passing automated check may not prove that the requested work is actually complete, so this adds a structured human-like review step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the goalkeeper plugin — 8 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to approve completed goals, reject them with a fix list, or review an active goal without changing its progress.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bonfire-systems/goalkeeper
Claude Code
/plugin install goalkeeper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install goalkeeper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,391 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 $0.00083 $0.01391
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00139

Measured 11d ago against content hash b56c663fca06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-judge 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 11d 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.

skills/goal-judge/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are operating the goal-judge skill — the gate that decides whether a goal is actually done, not just superficially passing the validator. The judge is what differentiates goalkeeper from a naive auto-loop.

The gk CLI (python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gk.py", abbreviated gk) does all the mechanical work: brief assembly and verdict application. Your job is spawning the judge and relaying its output faithfully.

Invocation sources

  1. Inline mode — the /goal skill's execution loop auto-fires the judge when the validator passes.
  2. Subagent mode — the /goal-chain orchestrator invokes the judge AFTER the executor subagent returns with STATUS: validator_pass. The executor never invokes the judge itself.
  3. Advisory on-demand — user runs /goal-judge directly for a non-binding read on an in-progress goal (does not advance state).

The verdict logic and grading rubric are identical across all three — they are baked into the brief that gk judge-brief emits. Only the invocation context differs.

Step 1 — assemble the brief

gk judge-brief <slug> [--executor-summary <file>]

This emits the complete, self-contained judge prompt: contract verbatim, compacted log, diff scope (git baseline, pre-existing dirty paths, validator baseline subtraction), the deduped file list to read end-to-end, the filtered diff (lockfiles/build outputs/IDE files excluded, plus contract diff_excludes), and the verdict-format instructions — including the requirement that every MET verdict cites file:line evidence.

In subagent mode (chain-driven), first write the executor's structured return (STATUS / SUMMARY / VALIDATOR_OUTPUT_TAIL / FILES_CHANGED) to a scratch file and pass it via --executor-summary — the brief marks it as a leading hint the judge must independently verify.

Do not edit, trim, or "improve" the brief. Comparable verdicts across runs require identical prompt shape — that is the whole reason assembly is mechanical.

Step 2 — run the judge

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 11d ago First seen · 79 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A b56c663fca06

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goal-judge is a skill published in the GitHub repository bonfire-systems/goalkeeper (13 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,391 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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