LangChain's Harrison Chase on Goal Engineering: How to Design Goals for Agents
hwchase17 · x · 2026-11-15
Harrison Chase co-authored an article with the Actively AI team proposing "Goal Engineering": as agents take on increasingly broad tasks and shift from one-off tasks to working toward goals, designing those goals correctly becomes critical.
Josh Rosen (quoted in the RT) adds a caveat: rather than a single goal, an agent likely has a collection of more granular sub-goals it must hit along the way. So goal engineering is really about aligning a series of goals and determining the dependencies between them.
Related event: LangChain Founder Proposes "Goal Engineering" for Agents(3 posts)→
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