autoresearch-goal

autoresearch-goal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy. It costs 41 tokens per session (707 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research workflow that ties an investigation to a tracked goal and checks its work with professor- and critic-style reviews. It stores the mission, criteria, and progress as local files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research projects that need a clear objective, written evaluation rules, ongoing progress records, and a validation step before completion.
Why use it?
It helps prevent long research tasks from losing their purpose or being marked complete without supporting evidence. It also keeps the research state available across the workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for research projects that need a clear objective, written evaluation rules, ongoing progress records, and a validation step before completion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/autoresearch-goal
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 mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy --skill autoresearch-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 707 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 $0.00041 $0.00707
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00071

Measured 12d ago against content hash d75dddbcc8ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autoresearch-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 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/autoresearch-goal/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ported from oh-my-codex autoresearch-goal. OMX runtime conventions ($macro invocation, omx CLI, .omx/ state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list, .workbuddy/memory).

Autoresearch Goal

Use this workflow when a research mission should be bound to a tracked goal while WorkBuddy remains the durable state owner. This is for research projects that need goal-focused management plus professor/critic-style validation; it is not the default answer for ordinary pre-planning best-practice lookup.

Boundary

  • Do not claim shell commands mutate hidden external goal state — WorkBuddy tracks the goal locally.
  • Do not edit upstream tooling or add dependencies to satisfy a goal lifecycle.
  • Track goal status with the task list (TaskCreate/TaskUpdate) and persist durable artifacts under .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/.
  • Treat the goal as "complete" only via the local completion gate below, not via an external tool's hidden state.

Artifacts

autoresearch-goal writes:

  • .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/mission.json
  • .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/rubric.md
  • .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/ledger.jsonl
  • .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/completion.json

Flow

  1. Create the mission and professor-critic rubric. Capture in .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/mission.json and rubric.md (topic, rubric, and the critic command/prompt).
  2. Emit the model-facing handoff: summarize the mission + rubric so the active session has a clear objective.
  3. Track the goal with the task list; mark it active as the intended objective.
  4. Research iteratively against the rubric. Record every critic outcome in .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/ledger.jsonl via the verdict command (verdict pass|fail|blocked + evidence).
  5. Completion is blocked until professor-critic validation records verdict=pass. After the mission audit passes, mark the task-list goal complete and record .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/completion.json with the matching goal snapshot.
  6. Treat the completion step as durable local state reconciliation; do not mutate external goal state through shell commands or hooks.
  7. After completion, clear the active goal in the task list before starting another same-session goal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

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 · 46 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d75dddbcc8ee

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autoresearch-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 707 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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