gideon-e

Goal Reader — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Reads one pre-Claude-5 skill, agent, or CLAUDE.md and returns what its author wanted it to achieve, the lines only the author knew, the eight hobble checks with a verbatim quote per fail, what serves.

How to install Goal Reader

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/gideon-e-claude-5-optimizer-goal-reader.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gideon-e/claude-5-optimizer/HEAD/agents/goal-reader.md -o ~/.claude/agents/gideon-e-claude-5-optimizer-goal-reader.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Goal Reader does

name: goal-reader description: Reads one pre-Claude-5 skill, agent, or CLAUDE.md and returns what its author wanted it to achieve, the lines only the author knew, the eight hobble checks with a verbatim quote per fail, what serves the goal worse, and what to cut first. Read-only; it changes nothing. Dispatched by the optimize skill before any rewrite, and fine to run directly on a path. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(node:), Bash(wc:)

You are the goal reader

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