Agent skill

Goal Management

by grandamenium in grandamenium/cortextos

Daily goal lifecycle management. An agent skill from grandamenium/cortextos.

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Install Goal Management

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management --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/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .claude/skills/goal-management && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .claude/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .agents/skills/goal-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .agents/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .cursor/skills/goal-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .cursor/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git --path community/skills/goal-management

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .gemini/skills/goal-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .gemini/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .github/skills/goal-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .github/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install grandamenium/cortextos goal-management --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/community/skills/goal-management .opencode/skills/goal-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "goal-management" agent skill from https://github.com/grandamenium/cortextos/tree/main/community/skills/goal-management into .opencode/skills/goal-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "goal-management", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: goal-management
GitHub stars: 101
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 320 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 55
Repo updated: Sep 23, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Daily goal lifecycle management. An agent skill from grandamenium/cortextos.

Works in 6 steps: Read current org goals → Consult the user → Update org goals.json with today's focus → …
: morning briefing goal cascade
SKILL.md covers Hierarchy, Morning Goal Cascade, New Agent Bootstrap and Evening Goal Update, plus 1 more section
Calls jq

What it does

Goal Management is an agent skill from grandamenium/cortextos. Daily goal lifecycle management. Use for: morning briefing goal cascade, setting daily focus, refreshing agent goals, reviewing goal progress. Triggered daily as part of morning review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

: morning briefing goal cascade
Setting daily focus
Refreshing agent goals
Reviewing goal progress

Example prompts

“/goal-management”

Workflow steps

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

Read current org goals
Consult the user
Update org goals.json with today's focus
Set each agent's goals
Set your own goals
Confirm task plans

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6f93838. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- jq
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 Management loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 320 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

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

The full file from grandamenium/cortextos at commit 6f93838, republished under its MIT licence (© grandamenium). 320 words, ~1,164 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/goal-management/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: goal-management
description: Daily goal lifecycle management. Use for: morning briefing goal cascade, setting daily focus, refreshing agent goals, reviewing goal progress. Triggered daily as part of morning review.
triggers: goals, daily focus, priorities, what should we work on, goal cascade, set goals, update goals, goal management, north star

Goal Management

The orchestrator owns the daily goal lifecycle. Goals flow from the user's daily focus down to agent-specific objectives and tasks.

Hierarchy

North Star (org-level, rarely changes — set by user)
  → Daily Focus (what the user wants done TODAY — set each morning)
    → Agent goals.json (orchestrator writes role-specific goals for each agent)
      → GOALS.md (auto-generated from goals.json — agents read this on boot)
        → Tasks (agents create from their goals)

Morning Goal Cascade

Run this every morning as part of briefing:

1. Read current org goals

bash

cat $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/goals.json

2. Consult the user

Ask via Telegram:

"Good morning. Our north star is: [north_star from goals.json]. What's the focus for today?"

Wait for their response. They may give specific directives or say "continue yesterday's work."

3. Update org goals.json with today's focus

bash

jq --arg focus "the user's stated focus" --arg ts "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" \
    '.daily_focus = $focus | .daily_focus_set_at = $ts' \
    $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/goals.json > /tmp/goals.tmp \
  && mv /tmp/goals.tmp $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/goals.json

4. Set each agent's goals

For each active agent, based on their role and today's daily focus:

Determine 2-5 role-appropriate goals

Write their goals.json:

bash

cat > $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/agents/<agent>/goals.json << 'EOF'
{
  "focus": "role-specific focus derived from daily_focus",
  "goals": [
    "goal 1",
    "goal 2",
    "goal 3"
  ],
  "bottleneck": "",
  "updated_at": "ISO_TIMESTAMP",
  "updated_by": "$CTX_AGENT_NAME"
}
EOF

Regenerate GOALS.md from goals.json:

bash

cortextos goals generate-md --agent <agent> --org $CTX_ORG

Message the agent:

bash

cortextos bus send-message <agent> normal "New goals for today. Check GOALS.md and create tasks."

If an agent's goals.json already has daily_focus_set_at matching today: skip — don't overwrite.

5. Set your own goals

Write your orchestrator-level goals.json for today:

bash

cat > $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/agents/$CTX_AGENT_NAME/goals.json << 'EOF'
{
  "focus": "orchestrate today's work, cascade goals, monitor fleet",
  "goals": ["cascade goals to all agents", "send morning briefing", "monitor progress", "route approvals"],
  "bottleneck": "",
  "updated_at": "ISO_TIMESTAMP",
  "updated_by": "$CTX_AGENT_NAME"
}
EOF
cortextos goals generate-md --agent $CTX_AGENT_NAME --org $CTX_ORG

6. Confirm task plans

After each agent creates tasks from their new goals, review for:

Overlap (two agents doing the same thing)
Missing coverage (daily focus items nobody picked up)
Misaligned tasks (work unrelated to today's focus)

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New Agent Bootstrap

When a new agent comes online with an empty goals.json, they will message you requesting goals.

Handle by:

Checking their role from IDENTITY.md
Writing their goals.json with appropriate starter goals
Running cortextos goals generate-md --agent <name> --org $CTX_ORG
Replying with confirmation

Evening Goal Update

At end of day:

Check each agent's task completion against their goals
Note what was achieved vs planned

Update each agent's goals.json bottleneck field if new blockers emerged:

bash

jq --arg b "what's blocking them" --arg ts "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" \
    '.bottleneck = $b | .updated_at = $ts | .updated_by = "'$CTX_AGENT_NAME'"' \
    $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/agents/<agent>/goals.json > /tmp/agent-goals.tmp \
  && mv /tmp/agent-goals.tmp $CTX_FRAMEWORK_ROOT/orgs/$CTX_ORG/agents/<agent>/goals.json
cortextos goals generate-md --agent <agent> --org $CTX_ORG

Carry forward unfinished goals to tomorrow's morning discussion

North Star

The north star lives in orgs/<org>/goals.json. It is set by the user, rarely changes. The orchestrator references it when setting daily focus to ensure alignment.

If the daily focus drifts from the north star, flag it:

"Today's focus on [X] is different from our north star of [Y]. Is this intentional?"

Files

Just SKILL.md in community/skills/goal-management of grandamenium/cortextos.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6f93838

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Questions about Goal Management

What does Goal Management do?

Daily goal lifecycle management. An agent skill from grandamenium/cortextos. Goal Management is an agent skill from grandamenium/cortextos. Daily goal lifecycle management.

When should I use Goal Management?

Goal Management fits situations like: : morning briefing goal cascade; setting daily focus; refreshing agent goals; reviewing goal progress.

How do I install Goal Management in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (community/skills/goal-management in grandamenium/cortextos) into .claude/skills/goal-management in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Goal Management in Codex?

Run `npx skills add grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (community/skills/goal-management in grandamenium/cortextos) into .agents/skills/goal-management in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Goal Management 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 grandamenium/cortextos --skill goal-management -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-management, .gemini/skills/goal-management, .github/skills/goal-management and .opencode/skills/goal-management in your project.

What does Goal Management need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Goal Management needs the command-line tools its instructions call (jq).

Does Goal Management 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 Management 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 Management use?

Goal Management is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Goal Management use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Management?

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Who maintains Goal Management?

grandamenium (a GitHub user) maintains it in grandamenium/cortextos, which has 101 GitHub stars. The repository holds 55 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 23, 2026.

Source: grandamenium/cortextos on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Goal Management

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Goal Management

Hierarchy

Morning Goal Cascade

1. Read current org goals

2. Consult the user

3. Update org goals.json with today's focus

4. Set each agent's goals

5. Set your own goals

6. Confirm task plans

New Agent Bootstrap

Evening Goal Update

North Star

Files

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Questions about Goal Management