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Track progress toward 3-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals. Calculate completion percentages, surface stalled goals, connect daily tasks to objectives. Use for goal reviews and progress tracking.

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$ npx -y skills add ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm --skill goal-tracking --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/goal-tracking

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Track progress toward 3-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals. Calculate completion percentages, surface stalled goals, connect daily tasks to objectives. Use for goal reviews and progress tracking.

SKILL.md

goal-tracking.SKILL.md
name: goal-tracking
description: Track progress toward 3-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals. Calculate completion percentages, surface stalled goals, connect daily tasks to objectives. Use for goal reviews and progress tracking.
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TaskGet
model: sonnet

Goal Tracking Skill

Track and manage the cascading goal system from long-term vision to daily tasks.

Goal Hierarchy

Goals/0. Three Year Goals.md   <- Vision (Life areas)
    ↓
Goals/1. Yearly Goals.md       <- Annual objectives
    ↓
Projects/*/CLAUDE.md           <- Active projects (bridge layer)
    ↓
Goals/2. Monthly Goals.md      <- Current month focus
    ↓
Goals/3. Weekly Review.md      <- Weekly planning
    ↓
Daily Notes/*.md               <- Daily tasks and actions

Goal File Formats

Three Year Goals

## Life Areas
- Career: [Vision statement]
- Health: [Vision statement]
- Relationships: [Vision statement]
- Financial: [Vision statement]
- Learning: [Vision statement]
- Personal: [Vision statement]

Yearly Goals

## 2024 Goals
- [ ] Goal 1 (XX% complete)
- [ ] Goal 2 (XX% complete)
- [x] Goal 3 (100% complete)

Monthly Goals

## This Month's Focus
1. **Primary:** [Main focus]
2. **Secondary:** [Supporting goal]
3. **Stretch:** [If time permits]

### Key Results
- [ ] Measurable outcome 1
- [ ] Measurable outcome 2

Progress Calculation

Checklist-Based Goals

Progress = (Completed checkboxes / Total checkboxes) * 100

Metric-Based Goals

Progress = (Current value / Target value) * 100

Time-Based Goals

Progress = (Days elapsed / Total days) * 100

Common Operations

View Goal Progress

1. Read all goal files 2. Parse checkbox completion rates 3. Calculate overall and per-goal progress 4. Identify stalled or at-risk goals

Update Goal Status

1. Find goal in appropriate file 2. Update checkbox or percentage 3. Add date stamp for significant milestones 4. Update related weekly review

Connect Task to Goal

When adding tasks to daily notes: 1. Identify which goal the task supports 2. Add goal reference: `Supports: [[1. Yearly Goals#Goal Name]]` 3. Use appropriate priority tag

Surface Stalled Goals

1. Check last activity date for each goal 2. Flag goals with no progress in 14+ days 3. Suggest actions to restart momentum

Project-Aware Progress

Project Integration

When calculating goal progress, include project data: 1. Scan `Projects/*/CLAUDE.md` for all active projects 2. Match projects to goals via their "Goal Link" / "Supports" field 3. Include project completion % in goal progress calculations 4. Surface which projects support each goal

Orphan Goal Detection

Flag goals that have no active project supporting them:

  • A goal with 0 linked projects may need a project created (`/project new`)
  • A goal with only completed/archived projects may need a new initiative

Progress Report Format

## Goal Progress Report

### Overall: XX%

### By Goal
| Goal | Progress | Projects | Last Activity | Status |
|------|----------|----------|---------------|--------|
| Goal 1 | 75% | [[ProjectA]] (80%), [[ProjectB]] (60%) | 2 days ago | On Track |
| Goal 2 | 30% | (none) | 14 days ago | Stalled |

### Project Status
| Project | Goal | Progress | Phase |
|---------|------|----------|-------|
| [[ProjectA]] | Goal 1 | 80% | Active |
| [[ProjectB]] | Goal 1 | 60% | Active |

### Orphan Goals (no active project)
- Goal 2 — Consider `/project new` to create a supporting project

### This Week's Contributions
- [Task] -> [[Goal 1]] via [[ProjectA]]
- [Task] -> [[Goal 2]]

### Recommended Focus
1. [Stalled goal needs attention]
2. [Nearly complete goal - finish it]
3. [Orphan goal needs a project]

Task-Based Progress Tracking

The goal tracking skill uses session tasks when generating comprehensive progress reports.

Progress Report Tasks

Create tasks at skill start:

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Read three-year goals"
  description: "Load vision statements from Goals/0. Three Year Goals.md"
  activeForm: "Reading three-year goals..."

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Read yearly goals"
  description: "Load annual objectives from Goals/1. Yearly Goals.md"
  activeForm: "Reading yearly goals..."

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Read monthly goals"
  description: "Load current month focus from Goals/2. Monthly Goals.md"
  activeForm: "Reading monthly goals..."

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Scan recent daily notes"
  description: "Find task completions and goal contributions from past week"
  activeForm: "Scanning recent daily notes..."

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Calculate completion percentages"
  description: "Compute progress for each goal based on checkboxes and metrics"
  activeForm: "Calculating completion percentages..."

TaskCreate:
  subject: "Identify stalled goals"
  description: "Flag goals with no progress in 14+ days"
  activeForm: "Identifying stalled goals..."

Dependencies

Goal file reads can run in parallel, but analysis depends on having all data:

TaskUpdate: "Scan recent daily notes", addBlockedBy: [read-monthly-goals-id]
TaskUpdate: "Calculate completion percentages", addBlockedBy: [scan-recent-daily-notes-id]
TaskUpdate: "Identify stalled goals", addBlockedBy: [calculate-completion-percentages-id]

Mark each task `in_progress` when starting, `completed` when done using TaskUpdate.

Task tools are session-scoped and don't persist—your actual goal progress is tracked through markdown checkboxes and percentages in your goal files.

Integration Points

  • `/weekly` review: Full progress assessment with project rollup
  • `/daily` planning: Surface relevant goals and project next-actions
  • `/monthly` review: Adjust goals as needed, check quarterly milestones
  • `/project status`: Project completion feeds goal calculations
  • Quarterly review: Cascade from 3-year vision
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Not another PKM starter kit. This is an execution system that connects your 3-year vision to what you do today — and holds you accountable with AI. Every layer connects. /daily surfaces your ONE Big Thing from the weekly review. /weekly shows project progress.

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