/goooooooal!
Turn an issue into an agentic mission
Goal is an Agentic Workflow that brings the semantics of /goal directly to your repo. Open an issue with the goal label, and your agent will work on it until your success criteria are satisfied.
Goal is a primitive of the emerging “loop engineering” paradigm, sharing DNA with other workflows like Autoloop and Crane. What they all have in common is that rather than prompting an agent with what to do, you define what successful completion looks like. The agent then works until it achieves it.
To install it in your repository, simply tell your coding agent:
Install the Goal Agentic Workflow using https://github.com/githubnext/goal/blob/main/install.md The most important part of a goal is having clear, actionable criteria for success. A good goal is bigger than a quick prompt, but smaller than an open-ended backlog. It should be a coherent objective with an observable stopping condition. Work with an agent to write a good goal issue:
Create a new Goal using https://github.com/githubnext/goal/blob/main/new-goal.md Kick off a goal-driven agent, and join us on the GitHub Next Discord to let us know how it goes!