habits-and-goals

habits-and-goals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huntsyea/thinking-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for setting yearly goals and turning them into checkpoints, daily routines, and limits on what not to pursue. It also includes an ABC system for adjusting habits on difficult days.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a year, break large goals into smaller steps, review progress each month, build habits, and define anti-goals.
Why use it?
It helps connect ambitious plans to repeatable daily actions and makes it easier to correct course during monthly reviews.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan a year, break large goals into smaller steps, review progress each month, build habits, and define anti-goals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huntsyea/thinking-skills/habits-and-goals
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 huntsyea/thinking-skills --skill habits-and-goals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huntsyea/thinking-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 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 $0.00047 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00057

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0e8da528d523, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

habits-and-goals 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.

skills/habits-and-goals/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Habits and Goals

I help you set ambitious annual goals and build the daily systems that actually achieve them.

What I Do

Most goals fail not because they're wrong, but because there's no system to execute them. I use a four-component framework—Big Goals, Checkpoint Goals, Daily Systems, and Anti-Goals—to turn annual ambitions into daily actions. The ABC System keeps you consistent even on hard days.

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." — James Clear

When to Use Me

  • Planning your year (Professional and Personal goals)
  • Breaking down an ambitious goal into actionable steps
  • Running monthly check-ins to course-correct
  • Building sustainable daily habits with ABC levels
  • Defining Anti-Goals to avoid pyrrhic victories

Workflows

Annual Planning

When planning your year, follow templates/annual-plan.md

Goal Decomposition

When breaking down a single Big Goal, follow templates/goal-decomposition.md

Monthly Check-in

When running a monthly review (last Friday of month), follow templates/monthly-checkin.md

Reference Guides

For detailed framework explanations:

Quick Framework Summary

Component Role Metaphor
Big Goals Year-long ambitious targets The summit
Checkpoint Goals Quarterly milestones Campsites
Daily Systems 2-3 repeatable daily actions Footsteps
Anti-Goals What you refuse to sacrifice Guardrails

ABC System

  • A: Ambitious (perfect day)
  • B: Base (normal day)
  • C: Minimum (tough day)

Philosophy: Anything above zero compounds. The optimal shouldn't block the beneficial.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0e8da528d523

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habits-and-goals is a skill published in the GitHub repository huntsyea/thinking-skills (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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