A workflow for creating and managing durable goals in Codex, with measurable outcomes, verification checks, plans, and blocker handling. It turns long-running work into a defined objective that can be audited before it is closed.

Use it for debugging, migrations, large refactors, benchmarks, prototypes, browser workflows, and other tasks that require repeated checks until a defined result is reached.

It prevents open-ended work from continuing without a clear completion condition. It also helps distinguish finished work from work that is genuinely blocked.

autogoal — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by udecode: A workflow for creating and managing durable goals in…

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/udecode/plate-template/autogoal

Any agent

npx skills add udecode/plate-template --skill autogoal

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/udecode/plate-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/udecode/plate-template/autogoal.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/udecode/plate-template/autogoal)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/udecode/plate-template/autogoal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/udecode/plate-template/autogoal.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 10,841 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00038	$0.10841
Opus 5	$0.00019	$0.05421
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.02168
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.01084

Measured 5d ago against content hash 42f864caf265, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autogoal 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check-complete.mjs, scripts/create-goal-scratchpad.mjs, scripts/create-goal-template.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to autogoal — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/autogoal/SKILL.md · 1,259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autogoal

Use this when the user asks for a durable objective, long-running autonomous work, goal setup, or when a governing repo skill requires goal setup before work starts.

This skill turns a vague "keep going" instruction into a thread-scoped completion contract: what should be true, how it is verified, what must not change, and when Codex should stop.

Core Take

A normal prompt says: do the next thing.

A goal says: keep working until this outcome is true, or until the evidence shows a real blocker.

Goals are for work where the next move depends on what Codex learns along the way: debugging, migrations, flaky tests, benchmark tuning, deep research, large refactors, prototypes, browser-proof loops, and pass-gated plans.

Goals are not a permission slip to wander. They are a scoped, evidence-checked contract.

No measurable outcome, no goal. A goal must have a verification surface and a completion threshold before create_goal is called. Prefer numbers: score, count, latency, coverage, pass count, failing-to-passing repro count, issue rows, or explicit command success. When a numeric target does not fit, use a binary artifact checklist that can be audited from files, commands, screenshots, browser proof, or source-backed citations.

Universal Boundary

autogoal is the goal lifecycle kernel. It owns:

objective shape
measurable completion thresholds
evidence standards
active goal conflict handling
durable plan state
blocker and completion rules
repair routing when a goal-backed workflow misses expectations

It does not own project policy. Keep repo commands, package managers, browser tools, release rules, PR policy, scorecards, issue ledgers, and lane-specific pass schedules in derived skills or project-owned docs/plans/templates/<template>.md.

Derived skills may be stricter than autogoal; they should not duplicate the goal lifecycle. autogoal says how work remains honest. The derived skill says what the lane actually requires.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,259 lines

Files

What ships with it

14 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.

5d ago First seen · 1,259 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 42f864caf265

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autogoal is a skill published in the GitHub repository udecode/plate-template (59 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 10,841 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to autogoal, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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