Open-ended goal loops in Codex burn tokens endlessly, developers report
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-11-11
Developers report that Codex's /goal feature is unreliable in practice: every time it's enabled, the agent loops endlessly because nothing tells it when it's done, wasting enormous amounts of time and tokens.
The discussion points at the core flaw of open-ended goal loops — no termination criterion — and asks whether pairing /goal with a test it must pass would fix the runaway behavior. A useful cautionary case for anyone orchestrating long agent tasks.
Related event: Developers Complain Codex /goal Burns Tokens Without Results(2 posts)→
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