goal-and-brief SKILL.md skillA
goal-and-brief from heymegabyte/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add heymegabyte/claude-skills/goal-and-brief@v2.1.0Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- heymegabyte/claude-skills
- Path
02-goal-and-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v2.1.0, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 3,752 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Establish project thesis before first code. Infer product type from domain/folder/README. Identify users, business model, pSEO strategy, AI-native dev approach. Maintain PROJECT_BRIEF.md as source of truth.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 02 — Goal and Brief
Establish the project thesis and maintain `PROJECT_BRIEF.md` as the source of truth before any code is written.
## Run FIRST on every new project / rebuild
Before code, write `PROJECT_BRIEF.md`. The brief drives every downstream decision (skill 05 stack, skill 06 build, skill 09 brand, skill 16 site mode).
> **One-line website prompt? Hand off after the brief**: `16-cinematic-website-prime-directive` is the prime directive (trumps generic 06-build); `website-build-manifest` is the acceptance index of every gate; `website-build-doctrine` is the Phase -1→8 sequence. Brief → manifest → doctrine → build.
## Org-type inference (drives everything)
Detect from domain + folder name + scraped homepage + Google Places category:
| Pattern | Org type |
|---|---|
| `*.com` w/ pricing page + signup → | **saas** |
| `*.org` w/ donate button + 501(c)(3) → | **nonprofit** |
| Google Places category in {restaurant, salon, medical, legal, fitness, automotive, retail, photography, real-estate, education, financial, pet, wedding} → | **local-business** |
| `*.com` portfolio of links + bio + projects → | **portfolio** |
| `*.gov` / `.gov.uk` / `.ca.gov` → | **government** |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add heymegabyte/claude-skills/goal-and-brief@sha256:1a16cf961dfb4c6dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bj65piwcw236mxf2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 10, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.0 latest | 2026-10-04 | 5a3b075 | 3,752 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-29 | 4df4f79 | 3,748 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-20 | d25296e | 3,736 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-20 | dba2f83 | 3,720 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-19 | 9d79e49 | 3,411 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-10 | 3a04ccb | 3,298 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3752 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
heymegabyte/claude-skills · 26 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bj65piwcw236mxf2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=heymegabyte/claude-skills/goal-and-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1a16cf961dfb4c6db6bdf48675840c0db9783f5db273e649625f1624d8c67e7f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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