Worker-native goals unlock longer horizons.
Codex /goal is a worker-native objective register, not merely a memory feature. It lets a coding worker carry a persistent direction of travel across longer arcs of work.
What this changes for operators
- Operators now need to ask which durable objective the worker is pursuing, whether it is still aligned with the operator's charter, and how it maps to the current run scope.
Primary sources
Signal metadata
Source findings
- Codex: Provider-Native Long-Horizon Work Is Moving Into the CLI 2026-05-06-manual-2026-04-22_2026-05-06-frontier-v0/codex
Featured in
- What Shaped the Run / 2026-05-06
Run: 2026-05-06-manual-2026-04-22_2026-05-06-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 / ID: 2026-05-06-worker-native-goals
Research evidence and publication history are open in the repository.