goal

goal is a skill for Claude Code from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,731 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that produces one short goal statement describing the current work. It can use a supplied focus hint or infer the objective from recent conversation and unfinished tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to state the current task in a concise, actionable form, including when you need to narrow attention to a particular part of the work.
Why use it?
It gives a handoff or working session a clear objective without changing files, plans, or repository state.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-cli-harness-better-practices plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to state the current task in a concise, actionable form, including when you need to narrow attention to a particular part of the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/goal
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-cli-harness-better-practices, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for goal

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for goal

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/goal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/goal.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,731 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 $0.00055 $0.01731
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00692
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00173

Measured 12d ago against content hash 92a4192c187a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

ai-cli-harness-better-practices/skills/goal/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Emit a single objective statement the reader can act on with no other context. Print it and stop. This skill produces one artifact and takes no other action.

Run it at any point: mid-task, before a handoff, after a pivot, in a scratch directory with no repository. It never blocks on state it cannot find.

Scope

In: one goal statement body, under 4000 characters, printed to the user. Direct invocation wraps it in a ## Goal statement header (Step 5); the body itself never contains a heading.

Out: file writes, commits, git or gh calls, network access, plan edits, task updates. The single command this skill runs is the wc -m measurement in Step 4, which reads from a heredoc and writes nothing. If you find yourself running anything else, stop — it is outside this skill's scope.

Step 1: Determine focus

If an argument was supplied, it is the focus. Treat it exactly as /compact's hint: a steer on what matters, not a full specification. Honor exclusions in it literally — "ignore the docs work" means no docs criterion, even if docs work is unfinished.

With no argument, derive focus from these sources, highest weight first:

  1. The most recent pivot. Where the work changed direction, scope, or approach — a correction, a rejected approach, a new constraint. The current objective lives after the last pivot, not at the top of the session.
  2. Unfinished plan items. Resolve the plan file from the most recent ## Plan File Info: block in a <system-reminder> — match [^[:space:]]+/\.claude/plans/[^[:space:]]+\.md and take the latest. Read it and collect unchecked - [ ] items. No such block means no plan file; skip.
  3. Open tasks. Call TaskList; keep entries whose status != "completed".

Skip any source that is absent. All three absent is normal and fine — derive the goal from the conversation alone.

Where sources disagree, the conversation wins. A plan file records what was true when written; the session records what is true now.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 12d ago Changed · -2 lines · -7 tokens per session 92a4192c187a
  2. 24d ago Changed · +3 lines · -78 tokens per session 0a7f7e499814
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 162 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 2ac35eb46417

Subscribe to this mod's changes

goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,731 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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