Check the read before acting: did you understand the instruction correctly enough to spend the work? Goal catches misread instructions before they become coherent work against the wrong target. It verifies a claim about the requester's intent against available context: the current message, session history, project memory, files on disk, and established conventions. This is not : the question is what was meant, not whether a world claim is true. Workflow 1. Recognize the signal: a long or multi-part instruction, ambiguous scope or referents, deliberately flexible wording, or stakes high enough…