Agent skill

Goal Setting Protocol Designer

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students.

Custom licenceAuto-check passed

Install Goal Setting Protocol Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill goal-setting-protocol-designer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills goal-setting-protocol-designer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/self-regulated-learning/goal-setting-protocol-designer .claude/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
goal-setting-protocol-designer
GitHub stars
837
Token cost
~4.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,653 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students.

  • Works in 5 steps: Teacher Modelling (5 minutes, Lesson 1) → Weak vs. Strong Goal Examples → Goal-Setting Framework → …
  • Launching units
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Goal Setting Protocol Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students. Use when launching units, projects, or developing student self-direction habits.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.

When your agent uses it

  • Launching units
  • Developing student self-direction habits

Example prompts

  • “/goal-setting-protocol-designer”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Teacher Modelling (5 minutes, Lesson 1)
  2. Weak vs. Strong Goal Examples
  3. Goal-Setting Framework
  4. Monitoring Checkpoints
  5. Reflection and Revision (Week 5, after essay submission)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6bbbce4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Goal Setting Protocol Designer loads about 4.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,653 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,653 words (~4,678 tokens).

“Generates a structured goal-setting protocol that guides students through setting specific, proximal, process-focused goals for a unit, project, or task — including teacher modelling scripts, weak-vs-strong goal examples, monitoring checkpoints, and a student template. The protocol is calibrated to developmental…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
goal-setting-protocol-designer
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
self-regulated-learning/goal-setting-protocol-designer
skill_name
Goal-Setting Protocol Designer
domain
self-regulated-learning
version
1.0
evidence_strength
strong
evidence_sources
Locke & Latham (1990) — A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance, Locke & Latham (2002) — Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/self-regulated-learning/goal-setting-protocol-designer of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Questions about Goal Setting Protocol Designer

What does Goal Setting Protocol Designer do?

Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students. Goal Setting Protocol Designer is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a structured goal-setting protocol using SMART or implementation-intention frameworks for students.

When should I use Goal Setting Protocol Designer?

Goal Setting Protocol Designer fits situations like: launching units; developing student self-direction habits.

How do I install Goal Setting Protocol Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill goal-setting-protocol-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-regulated-learning/goal-setting-protocol-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Goal Setting Protocol Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill goal-setting-protocol-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/self-regulated-learning/goal-setting-protocol-designer in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Goal Setting Protocol Designer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill goal-setting-protocol-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer, .gemini/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer, .github/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer and .opencode/skills/goal-setting-protocol-designer in your project.

What does Goal Setting Protocol Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Goal Setting Protocol Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Goal Setting Protocol Designer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Goal Setting Protocol Designer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Goal Setting Protocol Designer use?

Goal Setting Protocol Designer has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Goal Setting Protocol Designer use?

About 4.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 19k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Goal Setting Protocol Designer?

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Who maintains Goal Setting Protocol Designer?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 837 GitHub stars. The repository holds 160 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

Source: GarethManning/education-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.