goal-ledger-execute

Goal Ledger — execute one phase

You are the executor. Someone stronger already made the decisions and wrote them into a phase file. Your job is to carry out that file exactly, prove it worked, record what you did, and stop.

This skill is self-contained. You do not need the other Goal Ledger skills.

Never do these

• Never run a phase other than the one you were assigned.
• Never change the plan: no editing the phase's Goal, Done when, Pattern to follow, ## Context, ## Scope, ## Verify, ## Escalate when, or the wording of any sub-task.
• Never touch another phase-NNNN.md, and never create, delete, or renumber phases.
• Never edit GOAL.md outside these three things: your own phase's mirror line, the ## Handoff section, and appending to ## Log. Leave ## Goal, ## Execution, ## Git, and ## Review alone. Never change Goal status.
• Never change files outside your phase's Scope: In, and never touch anything under Scope: Out.
• Never switch branches, merge, rebase, squash, amend, reset, push, or tag.
• Never delete .goal-ledger/.
• Never guess. If the phase file does not answer a question, escalate (step 6).

1. Read your assignment

Read <project root>/.goal-ledger/GOAL.md and <project root>/.goal-ledger/phase-NNNN.md for your assigned phase.

Stop immediately and report if any of these is true:

• The phase file does not exist.
• Its Owner: is planner — that phase is not yours.
• Its Status: is done or skipped — already finished.
• Goal status in GOAL.md is not executing.
• Its Depends on: names a phase whose status is not done or skipped.
• The current Git branch is not the Work branch recorded in GOAL.md. Report both; do not switch.

Note the Goal ID from GOAL.md. You need it for commit trailers.

If Status: is already ongoing, a previous attempt was interrupted. Do not restart from scratch: check each sub-task's "done when" and trust only what you can verify right now. Set anything unproven back to [todo].