goallisted

# goal A **Goal** is a named finish line: a set of **direct members** living in **one container on your tracker** — a GitHub Milestone, a Linear Project, a Linear Initiative, or a file on the local markdown store — plus its **Frontier**, the derived remainder of members that are not finished yet. **The member kind follows the container, never your choice at call time**: an issue under a Milestone, a Project, or the markdown goal file; a **project** under a Linear Initiative, because an initiative holds projects, not issues. This station is the fourth planning station, beside `triage`, `to-prd` and `to-issues`, and it runs in four passes: | Pass | Writes? | What it does | |---|---|---| | **cut** | yes | mints the container and files its opening frontier as **bare** direct members — title, prose, provenance line — with the dependencies you already know drawn between them, natively, at mint | | **curation** | yes | joins a direct member to the goal, naming its kind as it does, including the handoff when a placeholder outgrows itself and its slices join in its place | | **status** | no | reports the five-state frontier — the native project state alongside it, under an initiative binding — and stops | | **mirror** | yes | publishes the Frontier as derived accounting to the bound container's own native update surface — a session-drafted, Operator-confirmed narrative above an engine-rendered anchor it can neither supply, edit, nor omit | Your job is the **judgment** — what the fi