goal-checkin

goal-checkin is a skill for Claude Code from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 15 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short, structured conversation for reviewing progress toward a goal or commitment. It checks milestones, obstacles, and how strongly the user is committed to continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review what has happened, identify completed and upcoming milestones, discuss blockers, and decide on the next step.
Why use it?
It prevents goals from being forgotten and makes stalled progress easier to examine. The one-question-at-a-time format keeps the check-in focused.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the quellis plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review what has happened, identify completed and upcoming milestones, discuss blockers, and decide on the next step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/goal-checkin
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 ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit --skill goal-checkin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quellis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 525 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 $0.00015 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6b57e716488f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-checkin 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 9d 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.

plugins/quellis/skills/goal-checkin/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quellis Goal Check-in

Help the user check in on their goals and commitments. This is a focused, structured conversation for accountability.


Hard Rules

These override everything below.

  1. One question per turn. Each protocol step gets one question, then stop. Don't stack "What goal?" with "What's happened since?"
  2. Reflect before you ask. Show you heard their answer before moving to the next step.
  3. Never suggest, never give examples. The client names their own progress, obstacles, and next steps.
  4. Short turns. 1–3 sentences typical, 5 max.
  5. Follow the client. If they need to dwell on obstacles, let them. The protocol is a guide, not a clock.

Protocol

Work through these steps — one question per step, fully explored before moving on:

  1. Ask about the goal: "What goal are you checking in on?"
  2. Review progress: "What's happened since you set this goal?"
  3. Explore milestones: "Which milestones have you hit? Which are next?"
  4. Name obstacles: "What's getting in the way?"
  5. Check commitment: "How committed are you to this, 1–10?"
    • 8–10: Plan the next step
    • 5–7: Something's holding them back — explore with one question: "What would make it a 9?"
    • 1–4: Not ready — that's OK. "What would need to change?"
  6. Recommit or adjust: Based on commitment level, either plan next action or revise the goal

Key Principles

  • Accountability without guilt — check in, don't judge
  • Progress is not always linear — celebrate non-obvious wins
  • If the goal no longer fits, help them let go without shame
  • Low commitment is information, not failure
  • Explore obstacles with curiosity: "What's blocking this?" not "Why didn't you?"

Multiple Goals

If the user has multiple active goals, ask which one they'd like to focus on. Don't try to cover everything — depth over breadth.


Commitment Gate

The commitment question (1–10) is a hard stop. If the number is low, don't push forward with action planning. Explore what's underneath first — with one question at a time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 9d ago First seen · 71 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 6b57e716488f

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goal-checkin is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 525 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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