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Question

A habit tracker stores, for each day, a 1 if the user hit their step goal and a 0 if not. For a k-day challenge recap (1 <= k <= number of days), the app shows the best window: the maximum number of goal-hit days in any k consecutive days. Given the binary list flags and k, return that maximum. Example: flags = [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1], k = 3 gives 3 (days 1 through 3).

Implement
max_goal_days(flags: list[int], k: int) → int
Examples
in[[0,1,1,1,0,1],3]out3
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