goal-prompt SKILL.md skillA
goal-prompt from trailofbits/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add trailofbits/skills/goal-prompt@git:20260819.07bce8aPins git:20260819.07bce8a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- trailofbits/skills
- Path
plugins/goal-prompt/skills/goal-prompt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260819.07bce8a, committed Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 6,171 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8,043
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Drafts copy-paste-ready /goal commands for goal mode in Claude Code and Codex. Use when the user asks to create, write, rewrite, improve, compress, clean up, or prepare a goal prompt, goal condition, /goal command, goal-mode objective, or copy-ready long-running task objective.
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 Prompt
`/goal` keeps the agent working until a completion condition is met. Both Claude Code and Codex take it as one line, max 4,000 characters. In Claude Code a small model re-judges the condition after each turn from the transcript alone — it cannot run commands.
Draft a condition that can terminate, then format it. A goal fits work bigger than one turn with a checkable finish line; chain small goals with review between them rather than writing one giant goal.
## Draft
Include, joined with AND — never "or", the loop takes the cheaper branch:
1. **End state, not activity** — "all `legacyAuth()` call sites use `auth.verify()`", not "migrate the auth code". An activity can be claimed; an end state is true or false.
2. **Scope to read first** — the files, issue, logs, or plan to read before acting.
3. **Stated check** — the exact command and its observable result ("`npm test` exits 0"), plus an instruction to run it and show the output; a result that never lands in the transcript does not exist to the evaluator.
4. **Invariants** — what must not change ("without modifying vendor/"), always including "do not weaken, skip, or edit the checks themselves".
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add trailofbits/skills/goal-prompt@sha256:684bd98d836f88e7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.07bce8a, 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_wdpb6apkbadefyor)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 19, 2026.
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 (6171 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
trailofbits/skills · 8,043 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wdpb6apkbadefyor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=trailofbits/skills/goal-prompt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/684bd98d836f88e7b7ec552cc329e4e4cc1fd51cb0d4ef23e83036992f6ef6cc
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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