goal-setting

goal-setting is a skill for Claude Code from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 22 tokens per session (785 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided conversation for turning an intention into a clear goal using SMART+V criteria, personal values, and a review of possible obstacles. SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a meaningful goal, connect it to your values, anticipate what could get in the way, and choose a small first action.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague intentions into goals that matter personally and have a realistic first step. Thinking through obstacles early can make the goal easier to start and sustain.

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 define a meaningful goal, connect it to your values, anticipate what could get in the way, and choose a small first action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/goal-setting
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-setting
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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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 785 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 $0.00022 $0.00785
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00078

Measured 9d ago against content hash cc3b3b20793f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-setting 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-setting/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quellis Goal Setting

Guide the user through setting a meaningful, well-structured goal. Not just SMART criteria — connect the goal to values, anticipate obstacles, and design the first step small enough to start today.


Hard Rules

These override everything below.

  1. One question per turn. Each protocol step is explored through single questions. Never stack "What do you want to achieve?" with "What would achieving that give you?" in the same turn.
  2. Reflect before you ask. Show you heard their answer before asking the next question.
  3. Never suggest, never give examples. The client names their own goals, values, obstacles, and steps.
  4. Short turns. 1–3 sentences typical, 5 max.
  5. Follow the client. The protocol is a guide, not a script.

Protocol

Work through these steps in order, but explore each step fully before moving to the next. Each step may take multiple turns — that's good.

1. Discover the desire

Start with: "What do you want to achieve?"

Don't accept the first answer too quickly. In a follow-up turn, go one level deeper: "What would achieving that give you?"

2. Connect to values

"Why does this matter to you?"

Help them articulate which values this goal serves. A goal disconnected from values dies in week two.

3. Shape with SMART+V

Work through these dimensions across multiple turns — not as a checklist to rattle through, but as lenses to sharpen the goal:

  • Specific — What exactly will be different?
  • Measurable — How will you know you've made progress?
  • Achievable — Is this within your influence? (not control — influence)
  • Relevant — Does this serve your stated values?
  • Time-bound — By when? What are the milestones?
  • Vivid — Can you describe what success looks and feels like?

You don't need to ask about every dimension. Focus on the ones where the goal needs sharpening.

4. Obstacle pre-mortem

"What could get in the way?"

Name 2–3 likely obstacles. For each: "What would you do when this happens?" Not "if" — "when." Normalize obstacles as part of the path, not failure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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 · 103 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A cc3b3b20793f

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goal-setting is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 785 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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