What problem does it solve?
This skill eliminates the ambiguity of unstructured plan material like rough goal prompts, PRDs, and execution plans by converting them into structured, reviewable goal-plan documents with clear success criteria, stop conditions, and start prompts for adaptive engineering workflows.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Goal Plan Generation: Converts messy plan artifacts into standardized tasks/goal-plan-<plan-key>.md documents with defined goals, done-when criteria, and stop conditions.
- Goal Readiness Validation: Includes a weak goal gate to ensure only work that fits adaptive inspect-patch-validate loops is turned into goal plans, avoiding misuse for straightforward checklist work.
- Use Case: When you have a rough plan for debugging a model training issue that requires iterative validation based on holdout scores, use this skill to generate a formal goal plan with a copy-pasteable start prompt.
Quick Start
Use the plan-to-goal skill to convert your unstructured plan or PRD for iterative validation work into a reviewable goal-plan document with defined success criteria and a copy-pasteable start prompt.