goal SKILL.md skillA

goal from coco-research/coco is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add coco-research/coco/goal@git:20260914.f106a7d

Pins git:20260914.f106a7d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: coco-research/coco
Path: skills/goal/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260914.f106a7d, committed Sep 14, 2026
Size: 6,889 bytes
Repository stars: 796
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Persistent project goal that survives across sessions and tools, with continuous-execution loop semantics. Use when someone asks to "set a goal", "what is my goal", "goal status", "keep working on X until done", "resume the goal", or wants work to continue across sessions until an objective is achieved. File-backed (.goal.md at project root); shared by every Coco-installed tool working in that repository.

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

# Goal — persistent project objective

A goal is a single objective the agent keeps pursuing across turns and
sessions until it is marked done. Inspired by Prime Agent's thread goal:
state lives outside any one conversation, so any tool with this skill
installed (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ...) picks up where another left off.

## State file

One file per project: `.goal.md` in the repository root. Human-readable and
human-editable on purpose — pause, resume, edit, and clear are controlled by
the user editing the file directly.

```markdown
---
objective: Ship release notes for v2.3
status: active        # active | paused | done
created: 2026-08-22
---

## Progress
- 2026-08-22 14:02 — drafted changelog from git log
```

Optional sections the loop reads if present: `## Queue` (ordered work items),
`## Standing constraints` (owner-set rules that bind every session),
`## Decisions` (recorded owner calls — binding, never re-litigated),
`## Done criteria`.

## API

- **get** — read `.goal.md`. No file means no goal is set. Report the
  objective, status, and latest progress entries when asked about goal status.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add coco-research/coco/goal@sha256:d0369360d9a15f8b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.f106a7d, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dbyqxnthc3l36zfp.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dbyqxnthc3l36zfp)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 14, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260914.f106a7d latest	2026-09-14	f106a7d	6,889 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6889 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

GitHub

coco-research/coco · 796 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dbyqxnthc3l36zfp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coco-research/coco/goal
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d0369360d9a15f8b101c901ac9b6c8a388d18b1c182036e957d25810d82b6abd

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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