goal-engineer

Use when the user wants to AUTHOR an unattended dispatch for either: (1) a goal-driven evaluator-optimizer loop of the GENERATE-AND-SELECT kind (generate candidates → grade against a rubric → iterate by reason-code → keep the best; the human picks the final selection), or (2) a lean build-to-spec run whose build spec is ALREADY FROZEN (approved ADR / locked design / accepted machine-checkable AC) and the only missing piece is the unattended-execution wrapper. A fresh-session agent runs the dispatch hands-off while the human only watches traffic-light push notifications. Interview-style forcing questions lock the spec, then it emits a self-contained dispatch markdown + a channel-agnostic notification protocol. This is the upstream SPEC AUTHOR, NOT a runtime: the dispatch is run by Claude Code's /goal, a headless -p session, or any unattended agent — /goal is the engine, this writes what you feed it. It NEVER authors build specs, product decisions, or AC — creating a build spec / PRD from raw input is prd-create. NOT a time scheduler (/loop or cron), NOT a recurring-push registrar (skill-cron).