Is the Goal Setter skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from gotalab/goal-setter-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Goal Setter SkillProof Score?

9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Goal Setter?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Goal Setter with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Goal Setter

Turns a rough request into a compact, evidence-bound /goal for long autonomous coding runs.

by gotalab · gotalab/goal-setter-skill

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.6/10
Tested: Jul 14, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Jul 18, 2026 · d752cf9

Asked to draft a /goal for endpoint rate-limiting, the skill refused to let the objective collapse into a numbered step list and instead forced one evidence-bound paragraph (429 after the 10th request in 60s, npm test must stay green) -- exactly the failure mode it names and bans ('Build UI, add API, write tests is a plan; it is not Done').

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 9/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Goal Setter does

Drafts, audits, and activates a /goal that pins down Done, verification evidence, scope boundaries, and stop conditions, built for multi-iteration Codex or Claude Code work rather than one-off edits. Explicitly declines to fire on ordinary implementation, Q&A, or subjective work with no rubric, and ships a bundled length-validator script to keep the goal under the runtime's character cap.

How to install Goal Setter

git clone https://github.com/gotalab/goal-setter-skill
cd goal-setter-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/goal-setter ~/.claude/skills/goal-setter

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Goal Setter

/goal-setter Turns a rough request into a compact, evidence-bound /goal for long autonomous coding runs.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Draft a goal for the agent to keep working until tests pass.
Help me scope out an autonomous coding task with clear success criteria.
Audit this task description, is it well-defined for a long agent run?

Frequently asked questions

Is the Goal Setter skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from gotalab/goal-setter-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Goal Setter work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 14, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Asked to draft a /goal for endpoint rate-limiting, the skill refused to let the objective collapse into a numbered step list and instead forced one evidence-bound paragraph (429 after the 10th request in 60s, npm test must stay green) -- exactly the failure mode it names and bans ('Build UI, add API, write tests is a plan; it is not Done').
What is the Goal Setter SkillProof Score?: 9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Goal Setter?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Goal Setter with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.