compose-goal SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/compose-goal@git:20261021.61c15fb

Pins git:20261021.61c15fb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
checkpickerupper/skills
Path
skills/productivity/compose-goal/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261021.61c15fb, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
7,164 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Compose or retrieve a gist-backed agent goal from a task or GitHub issues. Use when handing work to another agent and require a human outcome, live issue references, real behavior proof, and an explicit hard-blocker contract.

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

# Compose Goal

Compose one executable goal from a task, or pull and run an existing goal
capsule.

When the request is to pull a goal rather than compose one, read
references/pull-goal.md and follow that branch. The pulled goal remains the
source of its outcome, verification, and hard-blocker contract.

<what-to-do>
## Compose branch

### 0. Resolve ambiguity with the user

Before drafting or publishing, apply this gate:

- In Claude, when any material ambiguity remains, use the `AskUserQuestion`
  tool to ask focused questions about the human outcome, scope, target
  repository, or proof. Wait for the answers before drafting or publishing.
- In every other agent, when a material ambiguity remains, ask one to three
  focused questions. Ask them together when possible, and wait for the answers
  before drafting or publishing.
- When no material ambiguity remains, continue without asking a question.

Do not ask a ceremonial question or use a plain-text question in Claude when
`AskUserQuestion` is available. Never invent an answer to pass this gate.

Completion criterion: every material ambiguity is resolved, and any required
user answers have been received.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/compose-goal@sha256:3da9d15e79e506ad

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.61c15fb, 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.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_tf7nrsl7ggdkabq5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tf7nrsl7ggdkabq5)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 29 days.

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git:20261021.61c15fb latest2026-10-21 61c15fb 7,164 BA view · diff
git:20260922.d83de682026-09-22 d83de68 7,080 BA 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 (7164 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

checkpickerupper/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tf7nrsl7ggdkabq5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=checkpickerupper/skills/compose-goal
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3da9d15e79e506ad1bda3d0440b8bdf4a2c83048b029fcbb6e5e154fd11fe43c

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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