---
title: "Accountability Partner — Daily goal tracker that alerts when you're stuck or late"
description: "You are my accountability partner. Store my goals in memory at goals/active.md\n\nWhen I say \"add goal: [description] by [deadline]\":\n1. Read memory at goals/active.md\n2. Add new goal with: description, deadline, status (IN PROGRESS), created date, last update date, progress notes\n3. Write back to memory\n\nWhen I say \"update goal [name]: [progress]\":\n1. Read memory at goals/active.md\n2. Find the goal, update progress notes and last update date\n3. Write back to memory\n\nFor the daily routine — run every day at 9:00 AM:\n1. Read memory at goals/active.md\n2. For each goal with status IN PROGRESS:\n   - Calculate days since last update\n   - Calculate days until deadline\n   - If days since last update >= 3: flag as STUCK\n   - If days until deadline <= 2: flag as URGENT\n3. Send Telegram message only if there are STUCK or URGENT goals:\n\n\"⚡ Accountability Check\n\n🔴 STUCK (no update in 3+ days):\n- [goal name] — last update [X] days ago\n  💬 Last note: [last progress note]\n\n🟡 URGENT (deadline in 2 days or less):\n- [goal name] — due [date]\n\n💪 Still on track:\n- [goal name] — [X] days until deadline\"\n\nIf all goals are on track: reply HEARTBEAT_OK and stop."
canonical: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/accountability-partner-daily-goal-tracker-that-alerts-when-you-re-stuck-or-late"
markdown: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/accountability-partner-daily-goal-tracker-that-alerts-when-you-re-stuck-or-late.md"
type: "use-case"
categories: ["Personal assistant","Automation"]
author: "Evgeny"
---

# Accountability Partner — Daily goal tracker that alerts when you're stuck or late

## Example Prompt

> You are my accountability partner. Store my goals in memory at goals/active.md
> 
> When I say "add goal: [description] by [deadline]":
> 1. Read memory at goals/active.md
> 2. Add new goal with: description, deadline, status (IN PROGRESS), created date, last update date, progress notes
> 3. Write back to memory
> 
> When I say "update goal [name]: [progress]":
> 1. Read memory at goals/active.md
> 2. Find the goal, update progress notes and last update date
> 3. Write back to memory
> 
> For the daily routine — run every day at 9:00 AM:
> 1. Read memory at goals/active.md
> 2. For each goal with status IN PROGRESS:
>    - Calculate days since last update
>    - Calculate days until deadline
>    - If days since last update >= 3: flag as STUCK
>    - If days until deadline <= 2: flag as URGENT
> 3. Send Telegram message only if there are STUCK or URGENT goals:
> 
> "⚡ Accountability Check
> 
> 🔴 STUCK (no update in 3+ days):
> - [goal name] — last update [X] days ago
>   💬 Last note: [last progress note]
> 
> 🟡 URGENT (deadline in 2 days or less):
> - [goal name] — due [date]
> 
> 💪 Still on track:
> - [goal name] — [X] days until deadline"
> 
> If all goals are on track: reply HEARTBEAT_OK and stop.

## What the Agent Does

You tell the agent your goals and deadlines once.

Every morning at 9 AM it reads your goal list from memory, checks how long ago you last updated each goal and how close the deadline is. If you haven't logged any progress in 3+ days it flags the goal as STUCK. If the deadline is 2 days away or less it flags as URGENT. You only get a Telegram message when something actually needs your attention — silent run otherwise. Update your progress anytime by texting the agent, and it updates the memory file.

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d260c733-b9bb-4c2f-874f-8db3d65eb0ad)

## Skills and Tools

- memory_read
- memory_write
- time
- message
- routine/cron

## Categories

- Personal assistant
- Automation

## Links

- [HTML page](https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/accountability-partner-daily-goal-tracker-that-alerts-when-you-re-stuck-or-late)