OpenAI · Agent Skill
define-goal
Help the user define a concrete, measurable goal before starting work, especially when they ask to use the goal tool, create a goal, set an objective, clarify success criteria, or turn a fuzzy intention into a quantitative outcome. Use this skill for goal creation and goal refinement only; it…
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Install
Read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing: a skill runs with your agent's permissions. This copies just this skill into Claude Code's user skills folder; other agents read skills from their own folder.
Claude Code (user-level)
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/openai/skills.git /tmp/skills cd /tmp/skills && git sparse-checkout set "skills/.curated/define-goal" mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "skills/.curated/define-goal" ~/.claude/skills/define-goal
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Works with
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Reviewed Oct 5, 2026. Name and description are the skill's own frontmatter.