Policy (GOALS.md maintenance rules, mirrored in root AGENTS.md and goals/AGENTS.md):
- agents apply goal-entry adds/edits only on user request, proposal-first: show the
proposed wording and get explicit approval before writing (replaces "only the user
adds or edits goals" - the user was applying agent-drafted edits by hand anyway)
- suggesting candidate goals is welcome and encouraged when grounded in the work at
hand; a suggestion is a flagged proposal, never a file edit; bulk goal surveys stay
out of bounds
- detail-file updates from user-directed work on a goal proceed without pre-approval,
reported in the completion summary; index stays canonical
- unchanged: achieved-flip on met acceptance (reported), no proposed->active flips
G-038 (user-approved):
- Acceptance gains a post-restart terminal-query clause: a code-interp query (e.g.
'help console') must succeed instead of being refused by the stale settled
can_respond=0 anchor
- detail file records the proven mechanism for the post-restart console failure
(piped phase settles can_respond=0; punkshell.tcl opens CONIN$ as a new channel
leaving the repl thread's stdin as the exhausted pipe; the anchored default console
keeps the dead pair; forced resettle honestly re-settles 0 via layer-1 eof), the
rebind requirements (re-point {in out} AND unsettle), and the hidden-console
repro/regression harness
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Harness-agnostic technical project goal system. GOALS.md holds the canonical one-line index with format spec, status taxonomy, maintenance rules, and an agent-authoring workflow so agents asked to 'help me write a goal for X' ask the right questions. GOALS-archive.md is the achieved-goals archive stub. goals/AGENTS.md is the DOX child doc covering naming (G-<id>-<slug>.md), when a detail file is warranted, and the no-orphans/archive rule. goals/archive/.gitkeep tracks the archive dir.
Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=unknown; api-location=unknown
Julian Noble