Ascend Skills Library
Core

Create goal prompt.

Turn a task into a paste-ready /goal contract that stops on evidence, not on vibes.

v2.1.0·updated 18 Sep 2026·stable
Use the Ascend Skills: Create goal prompt

Paste that line into your AI and it fetches this skill, whole and current, then asks you for what the skill needs. Not connected yet? How to connect.

Skill details

What it does

One paste-ready /goal prompt for Claude Code or Codex: a completion contract with checkable success criteria, so the agent works until the evidence says done or stops at a named blocker.

Who uses it

operatorengineerin Core

What you need

You bring:

  • the task in plain words
  • which tool will run it
  • what proves it is done

How it works4

The steps, in order. The method itself is served whole through the connector, current on every use.

  1. 1

    Name the target tool and the one missing fact

  2. 2

    Draft the contract

  3. 3

    Check every criterion is machine-checkable

  4. 4

    Output the prompt with its character count

What it doesn't do

  • Big or ambiguous tasks that need research first
  • Prompts that judge on adjectives rather than commands

When your AI reaches for it

Forge a paste-ready /goal completion contract for Claude Code or Codex — fast, no research subagents. Use whenever the user wants a /goal prompt for a specific task: "write me a /goal", "create a goal prompt", "goal prompt for this", "turn this into a /goal", "make Codex build this until done", or when they describe autonomous build/fix/migrate work and want the agent to run until verified-done. Invoke with /create-goal-prompt [task] [claude-code|codex].

Latest change

v2.1.018 Sep 2026
Every work product now lands in the standard output tree (docs/SKILL-FORMAT.md, "Where a skill writes"): a spec too long for the goal line goes to `.ascend/goals/<task-slug>/PLAN.md`, agent state under the project, rather than an unnamed `PLAN.md`. No change to the prompt itself.

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