set-goals

set-goals is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 29 tokens per session (510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A goal-setting guide for turning a product vision into objectives, measurable key results, success metrics, and guardrails. Guardrails are limits that must not be crossed, such as an unacceptable rise in errors or costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define OKRs, baselines, targets, measurement sources, and limits for product initiatives.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from chasing one improving number while silently damaging other important outcomes. It also assigns each metric an owner and a source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define OKRs, baselines, targets, measurement sources, and limits for product initiatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/set-goals
View source ↗ tomzx/agents
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill set-goals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 510 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 $0.00029 $0.00510
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 6d ago against content hash a3f3830bb5ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

set-goals 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 6d 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/pdlc/skills/set-goals/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Set Goals

Translates the vision into measurable objectives, key results, and the two metric types that define success: success metrics (what must improve) and guardrail metrics (what must not regress). The classic PM failure is moving the measured metric while breaking three unmeasured ones; guardrails are the antidote and are mandatory here.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared PDLC conventions in skills/pdlc/references/shared.md.
  • vision.md from define-vision.

Steps

  1. Define 1-3 objectives (qualitative outcomes aligned to the vision).
  2. For each objective, define 2-4 key results that are measurable and time-bound.
  3. List success metrics (SM-N): the numbers that must move for the initiative to count as a win. Each gets a baseline, a target, and a measurement source.
  4. List guardrail metrics (GM-N): the numbers that must hold (e.g., latency, churn, error rate, cost-per-unit). Each gets a current value and a floor it must not cross. If you cannot name a guardrail, that is a finding — it means you do not know what you could break.
  5. Confirm every metric has an owner and a measurement source (instrumentation, report, manual). Metrics without a source are wishes.
  6. Write the result to .pdlc/context/goals.md (product-level) and/or the initiative directory for initiative-specific goals.

Output Format

Use the template at skills/pdlc/templates/initiatives/goals.md (also used as the context template). Each metric row: ID, name, type (success/guardrail), baseline, target/floor, owner, source.

Outcome

If $OUTCOME_YAML is set, emit verdict: drafted.

Completion Checklist

  • At least one success metric and at least one guardrail metric
  • Every metric has a baseline, target/floor, owner, and measurement source
  • Key results are time-bound
  • No metric is "we will improve X" without a number

Next Step

Load build-roadmap to sequence initiatives against these goals.

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. 6d ago First seen · 43 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a3f3830bb5ca

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set-goals is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 510 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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