goal-quench

# goal-quench — /goal with Token Budget + Quality Gate `/goal` runs until Haiku says "done" — but Haiku only checks completion, not quality. Without a budget ceiling, sessions can exhaust tokens silently. goal-quench adds three things that /goal currently lacks: 1. **Pre-run**: token-budget-gate estimate — know the cost before committing 2. **Mid-run**: budget threshold awareness — signal before exhaustion (instructional; not mechanically enforced) 3. **Post-run**: pipeline-conductor — verify quality before accepting "done" The evaluator principle: Haiku judges completion (every turn, cheap). pipeline-conductor judges quality (once at the end, structured). Separating the two closes the self-evaluation bias that a single evaluator cannot avoid. > **Scope by mode**: core = budget gate + stop-hook verification (v1 behavior, unchanged). pro/max add token reduction, goal decomposition, and external discovery (see Modes below). (Tier names mirror Claude Code's subscription units — core / pro / max — and avoid colliding with pipeline-conductor's `--full` flag.) Mid-run Sonnet quality signals remain deferred (requires empirical calibration). --- ## Modes — core → pro → max (fluid) goal-quench is a ladder, not a fixed shape. The default (**core**) is the narrow safety belt — for users who only want /goal's two structural gaps closed. **pro** and **max** add optimization and orchestration on top, and are **auto-recommended by the Phase-1 budget verdict** so the orchestration cos...