dale-loop-goal

dale-loop-goal is a skill for Codex from lubluniky/dale. It costs 36 tokens per session (304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A workflow for moving one long-running agent task toward one clearly checked completion condition. It repeatedly checks the current state and limits repeated failures, time, and iterations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for one focused outcome such as fixing a bug, completing a migration, or validating a project state when the work does not need parallel task streams.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from declaring success without checking the result and helps it keep working when the task is incomplete.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for one focused outcome such as fixing a bug, completing a migration, or validating a project state when the work does not need parallel task streams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lubluniky/dale/dale-loop-goal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lubluniky/dale --skill dale-loop-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lubluniky/dale

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 304 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 $0.00036 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2d7ae44848ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dale-loop-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 4d 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/dale-loop-goal/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Dale Loop Goal

Keep one objective coherent across work and resumptions. State the completion predicate and current evidence, then take the smallest useful next action. Use subagents only when independent work emerges; inherit model settings and keep a single coordinator. Do not turn sequential work into a swarm.

Use the goal tool only when a goal was explicitly requested. Follow its live status and blocking rules; set a token budget only if the user supplied one. For a requested later wakeup, use an automation instead of a blocking sleep. Persist enough state to re-observe the actual target before the next action.

Continue through authorized work. Ask for missing authority or a consequential choice only when needed and finish unaffected work meanwhile. When the same failure repeats without new evidence, change approach rather than retry harder. Honor user limits and the goal tool's exact completion/blocking semantics.

Finish with the outcome, direct evidence, and any actual unmet condition.

Cancellation and changed scope

On cancellation or revoked scope, interrupt affected workers immediately before other work, invalidate pending outputs, and preserve existing changes. Update or disable related scheduled work only within the user's cancellation scope. For a correction, stop conflicting work first, then send the revised contract; accept subsequent results only against the current request and artifact state.

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. 4d ago Changed · +10 lines · -15 tokens per session 2d7ae44848ec
  2. 11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 132817de7d09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dale-loop-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository lubluniky/dale (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 304 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 2026-08-30.

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