refine-goal SKILL.md skillA
refine-goal from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/refine-goal@git:20260917.db5f697Pins git:20260917.db5f697 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
- Path
plugins/zetetic-loop/skills/refine-goal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260917.db5f697, committed Sep 17, 2026
- Size
- 4,847 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
After a verify-goal run, turn the ledger into the next iteration: tighten criteria that passed by accident, add the criterion a failure revealed was missing, write the backlog the next plan starts from, and record the lesson in the memory layer. Never widens the end state; a wider end state is a new goal.
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
# Refine Goal ## Purpose An iteration that only fixes what failed converges slowly and forgets what it learned. This skill reads the evidence the last verification produced and rewrites the contract's edges, never its centre: criteria get sharper, the backlog gets concrete, the lesson gets stored. The pre-execution refine procedure binds a vague request to artifacts; this skill binds a measured result to the next attempt. ## Procedure 1. **Read the latest verify-goal entry.** Refuse when the latest entry is not a verify-goal entry, or when status is neither `active` nor `met`. Enforce the goal's token budget before work: a reached finite limit sets `exhausted`; unavailable accounting for a finite token limit sets `blocked`. Recheck before each new command. Refinement uses `iterations_used` without incrementing it; the next plan must pass the iteration-budget check. 2. **For each unmet row**, write one backlog item: the criterion id, what the evidence showed, the smallest change that would flip the verdict, and the files it touches. No item without a criterion id. 3. **For each met row**, ask whether it passed for the right reason. A test that passed …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/refine-goal@sha256:ac5cea0646854cbfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260917.db5f697, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 17, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_thyf7qek6slvyr3m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/refine-goal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac5cea0646854cbf5ad04eb098c1519be53bade914b752ab6941ca5e4eaa8964
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.