define-goal

Topics in the source

• Define Goal
• Boundary
• Preserve The Ambition
• Size Goals For Feedback
• Let Detail Follow Evidence
• Make Success Credible
• Write Goal Files

Outcome: Preserve the user's ambition in one or more ordered goal-prompt files that let a downstream agent pursue meaningful outcomes with freedom over implementation and regular opportunities for feedback. Done: Each selected goal has a numbered file or, when writes are unavailable, named file contents. The next goal can be finished and verified within the feedback window and needs no further answers from the user; later goals may be explicitly provisional. Together they preserve the ambition. If even an honest next goal cannot be stated, identify the decisive missing fact, user choice, or reframing needed rather than emitting a misleading queue. Safe failure: When a commitment is too large, narrow the next outcome without shrinking the long-term ambition. Expose uncertainty rather than inventing precision, substituting an easier target, or claiming that elapsed time establishes success. This skill defines purpose, desired outcomes, credible completion evidence, material bounds, and the order in which outcomes build toward the ambition. An outcome sequence is not an implementation plan: describe what becomes possible, not the steps, architecture, or tools used to make it possible.

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