go-no-go

go-no-go is a skill for Claude Code from LichAmnesia/lich-skills. It costs 169 tokens per session (3,961 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision checkpoint used before writing a specification, plan, or code for a new project or commitment. It tests whether the idea has a clear audience, a way to reach that audience, enough capacity, and a meaningful advantage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a new repository, accepting a major client project, signing a partnership, or committing more than two weeks of attention.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spending weeks or months building something that should not have been started.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the lich-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before opening a new repository, accepting a major client project, signing a partnership, or committing more than two weeks of attention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lichamnesia/lich-skills/go-no-go
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 LichAmnesia/lich-skills --skill go-no-go
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LichAmnesia/lich-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lich-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 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 go-no-go

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,961 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 67
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00169 $0.03961
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01980
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00396

Measured 10d ago against content hash 230c21a4775a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-no-go 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 10d 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/go-no-go/SKILL.md · 399 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 399 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go / No-Go — Stage 0

NO-GO is the default. GO requires evidence.

Most AI coding skills help you build. This one helps you not build.

Half the cost of solo work is starting the wrong thing. Once a repo exists, sunk cost and identity-protection make it hard to quit. So you grind 3–6 months before admitting the start itself was wrong.

go-no-go is the gate before any /spec, /plan, /build. It runs five framework checks (configurable), a memory check against your own past attempts, and a 24-hour cooldown if your enthusiasm is too high. The output is a public commitment doc with pre-mortemed kill criteria. If anything fails, the default is NO-GO.

It is a deliberately stronger instrument than a generic intent-extraction interview: it stores memory, fails by default, requires structural overrides, and produces a dated artifact you publish.

When to Use

Run /go-no-go when:

  • You catch yourself thinking "I should build X" / "I want to start Y" / "I should take on Z client"
  • Before opening any new git repo
  • Before signing any client contract or partnership
  • Before any commitment with attention budget > 14 days
  • Before invoking /spec, /plan, or /build on a new thing
  • When you feel sudden enthusiasm — especially then

When NOT to Use

  • Continuing existing committed projects (use /spec directly)
  • Tactical pivots within an already-confirmed project
  • Pure information requests ("how does X work?")
  • Daily journaling or routine work
  • Reactive content (writing about a news event, not a project commitment)
  • One-off tasks under ~4 hours

How It Differs From Other Pre-Build Skills

Plain intent interview go-no-go
Default outcome Continue NO-GO
Memory of past attempts None Mandatory pre-flight search
Framework checks Generic restate 5 fail-by-default gates
Time gate None 24h pattern-interrupt if enthusiasm-high
Output Confirmed restate Public commitment doc with kill criteria
Override semantics "Yes/no" Structured override with named reason
Lifecycle One session D14/D30/D60/D90 review schedule
Composability Standalone Stage 0 of any SDLC (pairs with spec-driven-dev)

Read the full file on GitHub · 399 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 399 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 230c21a4775a

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go-no-go is a skill published in the GitHub repository LichAmnesia/lich-skills (233 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 3,961 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.