discuss-milestone-goal

discuss-milestone-goal is a skill for Claude Code from uHappyLogic/cairn. It costs 33 tokens per session (619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion process for turning a broad project goal into a clear milestone goal, meaning a specific piece of work with a defined outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine an overall goal, ask focused clarification questions, and prepare a complete description for formal milestone definition.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear scope, missing dependencies, absent success measures, and conflicts before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the cairn plugin — 22 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine an overall goal, ask focused clarification questions, and prepare a complete description for formal milestone definition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uhappylogic/cairn/discuss-milestone-goal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uHappyLogic/cairn --skill discuss-milestone-goal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uHappyLogic/cairn

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cairn, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 619 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 $0.00033 $0.00619
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 6d ago against content hash e4d38399926e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discuss-milestone-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 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.

.agents/plugins/cairn/skills/discuss-milestone-goal/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

discuss-milestone-goal

Facilitates a structured conversation to sharpen a vague or incomplete milestone goal into a clear, actionable statement ready for /define-milestone-goal. The output is a refined goal description — not a document yet: this skill is purely conversational, creates no files, and assigns no milestone number (that is the user's decision).

Usage

/discuss-milestone-goal <overall_goal_description>
  • <overall_goal_description>: a free-form description of what you want the milestone to accomplish.

Example:

/discuss-milestone-goal add a getting-started guide that walks a new user through their first session

Workflow

1. Read project context

Read CLAUDE.md to understand the current milestone, the project's domain context, and project overview. Read milestones/README.md to understand what has already been built in past milestones. This grounds all questions in the real project state.

2. Analyze the goal

Identify what is clear, what is ambiguous, and what is missing. Look for:

  • Scope ambiguity — what exactly is in vs. out?
  • Dependency gaps — does this assume systems that don't exist yet?
  • Success criteria — how would you know the milestone is done?
  • Conflicts — does anything in the goal conflict with the current architecture or existing milestones?

3. Open with a crisp framing

Restate the goal in one sentence to show you understood it. Then immediately surface the most important ambiguities as direct questions. Do not pad with preamble or list every possible concern — focus on the two or three questions whose answers would most change the scope.

Format as:

Understood goal: one sentence.

Questions:

  1. ...
  2. ...
  3. (optional) ...

4. Continue the conversation

After each user answer, either:

  • Ask the next most important clarifying question, or
  • Confirm that the goal is now clear enough to define

Ask questions one at a time when the user seems overwhelmed; batch them when context is thin and answers are likely short. Keep each response short after the opening — the conversation should move fast. Do not ask questions for their own sake. Stop when the goal is specific enough that /define-milestone-goal could fill requirements.md without further guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 6d ago Changed · -8 lines e4d38399926e
  2. 11d ago First seen · 75 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 8388ef556e38

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discuss-milestone-goal is a skill published in the GitHub repository uHappyLogic/cairn (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 619 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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