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Durable professor-critic research workflow bound to a tracked goal, with validation-gated completion. Use when a research mission needs ongoing goal-focused management plus professor/critic-style validation.
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Based on SOC occupation classification
| name | autoresearch-goal |
| category | research |
| status | active |
| description | Durable professor-critic research workflow bound to a tracked goal, with validation-gated completion. Use when a research mission needs ongoing goal-focused management plus professor/critic-style validation. |
| agent_created | true |
| triggers | ["autoresearch-goal","research goal","professor critic research","validated research mission"] |
Ported from oh-my-codex
autoresearch-goal. OMX runtime conventions ($macroinvocation,omxCLI,.omx/state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list,.workbuddy/memory).
Use this workflow when a research mission should be bound to a tracked goal while WorkBuddy remains the durable state owner. This is for research projects that need goal-focused management plus professor/critic-style validation; it is not the default answer for ordinary pre-planning best-practice lookup.
.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/.autoresearch-goal writes:
.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/mission.json.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/rubric.md.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/ledger.jsonl.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/completion.json.omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/mission.json and rubric.md (topic, rubric, and the critic command/prompt)..omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/ledger.jsonl via the verdict command (verdict pass|fail|blocked + evidence).verdict=pass. After the mission audit passes, mark the task-list goal complete and record .omw/autoresearch-goal/<slug>/completion.json with the matching goal snapshot.A passing professor-critic artifact and a matching completed goal snapshot (task-list status complete) are required. Assistant prose, partial tests, or a failed/blocked verdict are not sufficient.
Lifecycle: the task-list goal starts active when the mission is created, and is marked complete after the professor-critic and audit pass. Local artifacts reconcile snapshots and record the cleanup step; they must not mutate hidden external goal state.
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