Maintain an outcome goal

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Preserve what the owner is aiming toward over time so planning, projects, work selection, and review can remain connected to durable direction.
Meaningful outcome: A goal exists with an owner, desired outcome, lifecycle state, optional time horizon and focus context, and links to related success or execution objects.
Boundaries — includes: creation, revision, activation or retirement, time horizon, focus context, provenance, review context, and links to targets, metrics, projects, or other relevant work.
Boundaries — excludes: defining a near-term objective, specifying a success condition, recording measurements, authoring an execution plan, and performing the work.
Terms and concepts: A goal is a durable desired outcome or direction. It remains valid without a target, metric, project, or task.

Actor: An authorized owner or delegated planning agent.
Command / intent: Create, revise, activate, pause, retire, or reconnect a longer-horizon outcome goal.
Current state: The intended outcome and current goal state can be determined.
Policies / invariants: The goal remains distinct from evidence that it has been achieved; linked targets and work retain their own identities; material changes are attributable; inferred direction is not silently treated as owner-confirmed intent.
Transition: Validate the requested change, preserve the goal statement and context, update lifecycle state or links, and record provenance.
Result: A current, inspectable goal definition with explicit lifecycle and relationships.
Events / effects: May inform objectives, targets, projects, Work Starters, reviews, and contextual work ordering without creating or changing them automatically.
Unknowns: Universal review cadence and goal-status vocabulary are not established.

A goal must not be represented as a plan, project, task, target, or measured result.
A missing target or metric must not invalidate an otherwise meaningful goal.

Preserve a concise outcome statement, rationale, time horizon, review cadence, and links to related direction, success, and execution objects when available.

The portable relationship contract for connecting goals to objectives, targets, projects, and reviews remains open.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
A goal preserves longer-horizon direction and remains meaningful without attached target, metric, or execution work.	rule/invariant	sourced	F01–F02.