goal-runner

goal-runner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/agent-collab. It costs 62 tokens per session (521 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for advancing a project's long-term goal one recorded piece of work at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing the next task, starting it, verifying the result, optionally delegating work, and recording the outcome.
Why use it?
It keeps work focused and records what was started, checked, delegated, and completed instead of losing track of progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the goal plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

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/zebbern/agent-collab/goal-runner
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/agent-collab --skill goal-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/agent-collab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install goal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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agentmods badge for goal-runner

README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 521 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00062 $0.00521
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00052

Measured 4d ago against content hash e58cd4f017c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-runner 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 4d 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/goal/skills/goal-runner/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Goal Runner

The companion (goal-companion.mjs) owns state, selection, and dispositions; you own judgment. Follow the /goal:step choreography exactly — never reimplement its bookkeeping by editing the goal file ad hoc.

Policy:

  • One increment at a time. nextstart → execute → verify → PR → record → stop. The companion refuses a second in-progress item; do not work around the refusal.
  • Disclose. Announce each increment (and each delegation) in one line.
  • Start before working. Call start before any work on the increment begins — including delegated work — or the ledger's step-started→disposition gap understates reality and the retro must discard it. Ledger evidence, 2026-08-07: one of eight durations read 0min because work preceded start.
  • Delegate with judgment. Trivial work stays local. Deep analysis or a second opinion goes to Codex, fast parallel implementation to Cursor, via the codex-delegation / cursor-delegation skills. Analysis and implementation are separate delegations when both are needed.
  • Refine once. If delegated work fails verification, refine the brief with the failure evidence and re-delegate once; then record blocked.
  • Blocked is a full stop. A blocked item blocks the goal; next refuses until a human resolves it. Surface the reason; never guess past it.
  • Unattended never merges. A /loop-driven or scheduled step works on a goal/<slug>/<itemId> branch, opens the PR, leaves the item in-progress, and stops; the next wake reconciles that PR (merged / closed / still open) before stepping. Merging stays human.
  • Honest dispositions. merged means the PR merged. Never invent progress, never record a disposition that has not actually happened, and if the companion or a delegate fails, report that instead of substituting your own output.
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. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A e58cd4f017c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

goal-runner is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/agent-collab (32 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 521 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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