where-to-start-situation-save

where-to-start-situation-save is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A behind-the-scenes step that records a founder's answers and the agreed first marketing move for a brand. It keeps the latest situation and a short history for future visits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as part of a first-step marketing conversation to save the business stage, goal, constraint and agreed next action.
Why use it?
It stops the founder from having to repeat the same business context and recommendation each time they return.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it as part of a first-step marketing conversation to save the business stage, goal, constraint and agreed next action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/where-to-start-situation-save
About the project

Goose Skills is a library of workflows and data APIs that lets coding agents handle growth and go-to-market work such as advertising, social media, content, SEO, lead generation, and customer research. It is intended for teams using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar agents. The catalogue entries are its reusable skills.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,262 stars · on GitHub · gooseworks.ai

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 gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill where-to-start-situation-save
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 875 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 $0.00052 $0.00875
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00350
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured today against content hash 24656d07a7ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

where-to-start-situation-save 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 today.

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.

marketing-agent/skills/where-to-start-situation-save/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

situation-save

Input

The founder's answers (their words), the brand (id, slug, coworker_agent_id) unless there is no real brand, what the short look at the site showed, the constraint you named, the recommendation and whether they agreed, and today's date.

No real brand (none, or an empty placeholder): save nothing, and say so plainly ("I can't save these yet — there's no brand set up"). If a brand is set up later in this same conversation, run this atom then, before anything else asks the founder again.

Steps

  1. The situation file. gooseworks:file_read brand/situation.md (brand coworker scope; no coworker → default workspace under brands/<brand-slug>/, and say so once). Replace the "Latest" section; move the previous "Latest" under "History" (keep the last three). Format:

    # Situation — <Brand>
    Do this first, because: <the constraint in one clause> → <the agreed first move>.
    
    ## Latest — <YYYY-MM-DD>
    Founder said [owner, <date>]: sells <…> to <…>; where it sells <…>; stage <…>; goal <…> by <date>; can put in <…>/month and <…> h/week; does the work: <…>; next big date <…>; tried <…>; has <list / audience / network…>.
    Seen on the site [site, read <date>]: <offer, price, first reason to buy, list sign-up>.
    Unknown: <what they didn't know>.
    Agent's read [guess, <date>]: constraint <…>; first move <…> (<agreed | adjusted to … | not agreed>); not yet <…>; worked if <…>; come back when <…>.
    
    ## History
    <earlier "Latest" sections, newest first, at most three>
    

    Keep the founder's words, what the site showed and your read on separate lines. Never put a guess on the "Founder said" line. No plan names or credit sums.

  2. Save it through the save-to-brain skill (../save-to-brain/SKILL.md): path brand/situation.md, artifact Situation, title Situation — <Brand> — <YYYY-MM-DD>, tags [where-to-start, situation], versioned: supersede.

  3. Profile fields (only those the founder stated, only clear matches to the listed values): gooseworks:brand_update with brand_id, knowledge_intent: "user_correction", user_statement = the founder's words that gave them, and patch.onboarding: role; ad_spend only if they said what they spend on ads today (question 4 asks what they can put in, which is not the same); goals and platforms only where a listed value plainly matches.

  4. Check the answers. If a write failed, say in one line that it wasn't saved, and carry on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today First seen · 45 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 24656d07a7ab

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where-to-start-situation-save is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,262 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 875 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 2026-10-21.

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