Verifiable Agent Goal Record

Verifiable Agent Goal Record

E118 says an agent goal should identify what to do, the conditions under which the result should be produced, and how to measure whether the work matched the intent.

The Venture Step editorial form expands that into Outcome, Context, Constraints, Verification, and Complete. This is an operating format derived from the source and current practice. It is not claimed as a universal Google or OpenAI standard.

Antigravity projects and permissions supply authority boundaries. Subagent and worktree documentation supplies isolation and coordination boundaries. Hooks can enforce or record checks at tool, invocation, and stop events.

The NIST Secure Software Development Framework supplies a broader risk-based reason to prepare the organization, protect software, produce well-secured software, and respond to vulnerabilities. It does not prescribe this goal template.

A goal should not silently authorize publication, spending, outreach, deletion, external messaging, or sensitive data access. Those authorities must be explicit and independently verifiable.