---
name: visible-progress-monitoring
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Make Goal Progress Visible Instead of Guessing\". For a goal you are actively pursuing, choose one observable progress signal, record it at useful checkpoints, compare it with the target, and use the result to adjust the next action. Monitoring helps when it informs action; more tracking is not automatically better. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:visible-progress-monitoring"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/visible-progress-monitoring/"
  brali-evidence-state: "reviewed"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/visible-progress-monitoring/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Make Goal Progress Visible Instead of Guessing

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
For a goal you are actively pursuing, choose one observable progress signal, record it at useful checkpoints, compare it with the target, and use the result to adjust the next action. Monitoring helps when it informs action; more tracking is not automatically better.

## Protocol
Choose one goal where feedback can still change what you do. Pick one observable indicator that is close to the real outcome or behavior you care about. Record it at checkpoints that match the task, compare it with the target or previous checkpoint, and decide one adjustment. Prefer a small trace you will actually use over a dashboard full of decorative metrics.

## Check-in
What changed in the progress signal, and what is the one next action that follows from that information?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-11.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000025
Topics: Goals, Planning & Prioritization, Habits & Consistency

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/visible-progress-monitoring/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/visible-progress-monitoring/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/visible-progress-monitoring/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/