| name | goal-runner |
| description | Use when the user asks to advance, continue, or work on the project's long-horizon goal (or to set one up) — the policy for goal-driven increments driven through the goal companion, one increment at a time, delegated via the codex/cursor delegation skills, honestly recorded. |
Goal Runner
The companion (goal-companion.mjs) owns state, selection, and dispositions;
you own judgment. Follow the /goal:step choreography exactly — never
reimplement its bookkeeping by editing the goal file ad hoc.
Policy:
- One increment at a time.
next → start → execute → verify → PR →
record → stop. The companion refuses a second in-progress item; do not
work around the refusal.
- Disclose. Announce each increment (and each delegation) in one line.
- Start before working. Call
start before any work on the increment
begins — including delegated work — or the ledger's step-started→disposition
gap understates reality and the retro must discard it. Ledger evidence,
2026-08-07: one of eight durations read 0min because work preceded start.
- Delegate with judgment. Trivial work stays local. Deep analysis or a
second opinion goes to Codex, fast parallel implementation to Cursor, via
the
codex-delegation / cursor-delegation skills. Analysis and
implementation are separate delegations when both are needed.
- Refine once. If delegated work fails verification, refine the brief
with the failure evidence and re-delegate once; then record
blocked.
- Blocked is a full stop. A blocked item blocks the goal;
next refuses
until a human resolves it. Surface the reason; never guess past it.
- Unattended never merges. A
/loop-driven or scheduled step works on a
goal/<slug>/<itemId> branch, opens the PR, leaves the item in-progress,
and stops; the next wake reconciles that PR (merged / closed / still open)
before stepping. Merging stays human.
- Honest dispositions.
merged means the PR merged. Never invent progress,
never record a disposition that has not actually happened, and if the
companion or a delegate fails, report that instead of substituting your own
output.
