plannotator-setup-goal

A guided setup process for turning a broad project objective into a durable goal package with a brief, implementation plan, verification checklist, and related documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a project goal before extended work, including its objective, plan, verification steps, blockers, and instructions for the coding agent.
Why use it?
It makes vague or long-running work clearer by defining the outcome, constraints, evidence of completion, and possible blockers. Important documents are reviewed through Plannotator approval gates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drn/dots/plannotator-setup-goal
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill plannotator-setup-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash b7c06132c976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plannotator-setup-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scaffold_goal.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

agents/skills/plannotator-setup-goal/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plannotator Setup Goal

Overview

Create a durable goal package in the current project at goals/<slug>/ so Codex /goal has a clear mission, guardrails, proof of done, and external memory. Use Plannotator as the user review UI: every critical document must be gated with plannotator annotate <document.md> --gate and revised until approved.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the working directory is the project root, or use the user-provided project directory.

  2. Gather enough context to name the goal, define the intended outcome, identify constraints, find likely project docs, and determine proof of done.

  3. Ask focused questions whenever the goal is vague, risky, too broad, missing a finish line, or missing verification. Do not proceed with guessed critical requirements.

  4. Create a slug from the goal name and scaffold goals/<slug>/ with:

    python3 <skill_dir>/scripts/scaffold_goal.py --root . --slug <slug> --title "<goal title>" --objective "<one sentence outcome>"
    
  5. Draft and refine the critical documents in this order:

    • brief.md
    • plan.md
    • verification.md
    • blockers.md
    • goal-prompt.md
  6. Gate each critical document with Plannotator before moving on:

    plannotator annotate goals/<slug>/<document.md> --gate
    
  7. If Plannotator returns denial, comments, or markup, treat that as user feedback. Revise the document, then run the same gate again. Continue until approved.

  8. After all gates pass, present the final path and the exact /goal prompt from goal-prompt.md.

Document Standards

brief.md must state the mission, context, constraints, non-goals, ask-before rules, and concise done condition.

plan.md is the central reviewed planning artifact. It must read like a clear solution narrative, not just a technical checklist. Include what is being built, why this approach is appropriate, how the solution will work, the main implementation slices, risks, phase boundaries, and acceptance criteria. Every important acceptance item needs observable evidence. For large missions, prefer several sequential goals over one endless goal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 90 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A b7c06132c976

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plannotator-setup-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,018 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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