goal-progress-tracker

A skill for maintaining a Markdown progress record for work governed by a Goal Contract. Markdown is a plain-text document format that is easy for people and tools to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep execution status current and give a person or later agent clear instructions for resuming the task.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context when work pauses or changes hands by recording what was tried, what evidence exists, and what is blocking progress. It does not define the goal or perform the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/max0max/goal-driven/goal-progress-tracker
Any agent
npx skills add MAX0MAX/goal-driven --skill goal-progress-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MAX0MAX/goal-driven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,740 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.01740
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00870
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00174

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4615af484514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-progress-tracker 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 2d 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/goal-progress-tracker/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal Progress Tracker

Overview

goal-progress-tracker is the paired runtime tracking skill for Goal Contracts.

Use it to maintain one recovery-oriented Markdown artifact: Goal Progress Log.

This skill does not define the goal, does not rewrite the Goal Contract, does not replace runtime verification, and does not continue into planning or execution. It records the current state of execution clearly enough that a human or later agent can inspect the work, understand what has already been tried, and continue from the right checkpoint. When a runtime or operator maintains handoff state for a Goal Contract, this tracker is the protocol for keeping that state current from the initial checkpoint onward rather than reconstructing it only after the work stops.

When To Use

Use this skill only when all of these are true:

  • a Goal Contract already exists
  • the Goal Contract has entered execution or is about to enter execution
  • the runtime or operator must maintain a durable Markdown status and recovery artifact that stays current during execution
  • current progress, attempted paths, evidence, blockers, or resume guidance are available

Do not use this skill to draft a Goal Contract from scratch, judge contract validity, prescribe execution strategy, or replace a plan or checklist system.

Post-hoc reconstruction after execution has already finished is a recovery fallback when no maintained log exists. It is not compliant primary workflow for a runtime or operator that elected to maintain tracker handoff state.

Required Input

Read the full tracking package before updating the log.

Tracking Package:
  goal_contract:
    Goal Contract:
      goal: "<one-sentence end state>"
      scope:
        in_scope:
          - "<required work>"
        out_of_scope:
          - "<excluded work>"
      success_criteria:
        - "<observable completion condition>"
      evidence:
        - criterion: "<criterion or group>"
          proof:
            - "<planned command, artifact, diff, or review gate>"
      guardrails:
        - "<constraint, escalation rule, or approval boundary>"
  current_status: "on_track"
  completed_steps:
    - "<checkpoint-level completed work>"
  in_flight_step: "<current focus>"
  attempted_paths:
    - path: "<approach tried>"
      result: "<worked | failed | partial>"
      evidence:
        - "<command output, diff, observation, or review result>"
  verified_evidence:
    - criterion: "<success criterion or group>"
      proof:
        - "<actual evidence>"
  active_blockers:
    - "<blocking issue or none>"
  resume_hint:
    - "<where to continue from>"
  existing_log: "<optional current Goal Progress Log markdown>"
  verifier_verdict: "<optional Verifier Verdict>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 236 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 4615af484514

Subscribe to this mod's changes

goal-progress-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository MAX0MAX/goal-driven (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,740 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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