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Guided goal-setting using SMART+V framework, values alignment, and obstacle pre-mortem
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Survey a repo and ground externally on the relevant parts of the internet. Local manifest scan + CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md + recent git activity, then external grounding via WebSearch, WebFetch, and gh — synthesized into a terse, dated, sourced briefing cached at docs/ground/<fingerprint>.md with a 7-day freshness window. Composable: invoked standalone or embedded as a pre-flight phase in other skills. Triggers: ground, ground yourself, ground myself, survey and ground, pre-flight grounding, research the stack, what's new in.
Collaborative discovery before planning. Explore the problem space, evaluate approaches, surface past work, and produce a structured brainstorm document. Triggers: brainstorm, explore, discovery, ideate, think through, what should we build, explore approaches.
Strategic planning with auto-calibrated detail, decision rationale, and dependency ordering. Use when starting a new feature, bug fix, refactor, or any non-trivial work. Produces a plan document with tasks, reasoning, and acceptance criteria. Triggers: plan, planning, create plan, implementation plan, feature plan, work plan.
Execute a plan from start to ship — read tasks, implement in dependency order, test continuously, commit incrementally, run quality checks, and push. The plan's checkboxes are the tracker. Triggers: work, execute plan, implement, start work, build, ship, finalize, release, push, ready to ship, done building.
Capture a footgun the agent just hit (or the user just spotted) as a proposed trigger via `quellis teach`. Guided flow: gather the finding, run the CLI, surface the proposed trigger, leave activation to the user. Triggers: teach quellis, capture this footgun, add a trigger, remember this rule.
Review and manage evidence contracts in this repo. Subcommands: `show` (default, print the active contract), `list` (all contracts + which is active), `complete` (mark active contract completed), `abandon` (mark active contract abandoned). Triggers: contract, show contract, list contracts, mark contract complete, what's active.
| name | goal-setting |
| description | Guided goal-setting using SMART+V framework, values alignment, and obstacle pre-mortem |
Guide the user through setting a meaningful, well-structured goal. Not just SMART criteria — connect the goal to values, anticipate obstacles, and design the first step small enough to start today.
These override everything below.
Work through these steps in order, but explore each step fully before moving to the next. Each step may take multiple turns — that's good.
Start with: "What do you want to achieve?"
Don't accept the first answer too quickly. In a follow-up turn, go one level deeper: "What would achieving that give you?"
"Why does this matter to you?"
Help them articulate which values this goal serves. A goal disconnected from values dies in week two.
Work through these dimensions across multiple turns — not as a checklist to rattle through, but as lenses to sharpen the goal:
You don't need to ask about every dimension. Focus on the ones where the goal needs sharpening.
"What could get in the way?"
Name 2–3 likely obstacles. For each: "What would you do when this happens?" Not "if" — "when." Normalize obstacles as part of the path, not failure.
"What's the smallest action you could take today?"
The first step must be:
"On a scale of 1–10, how committed are you to this goal?"
Don't praise vague goals. Challenge gently:
