What problem does it solve? Long-running research missions need durable state tracking and objective completion criteria, but Codex goal-mode state and external orchestration tools can drift apart. This Skill binds a research mission to Codex goal-mode focus while keeping OMX as the durable state owner, with professor-critic validation gating completion. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Mission and Rubric Creation: Creates a mission with a professor-critic rubric via omx autoresearch-goal create, storing mission.json, rubric.md, ledger.jsonl, and completion.json under .omx/goals/autoresearch/<slug>/. - Goal Lifecycle Reconciliation: Emits a model-facing handoff, records critic verdicts (pass/fail/blocked) with evidence, and reconciles the final Codex get_goal snapshot against durable OMX state. - Strict Completion Gate: Blocks completion until a passing professor-critic verdict and a matching complete Codex goal snapshot exist; assistant prose or partial tests are insufficient. - Use Case: A researcher runs a multi-session literature investigation, records each critic verdict in the ledger, and only marks the Codex goal complete after the rubric audit passes, then clears the thread goal before starting another. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to create an autoresearch goal mission with a topic and critic rubric, then iterate research while recording verdicts until the mission passes and the goal is reconciled.
