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/goal

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A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.

Set a goal: Claude keeps working across turns until the condition is met or the goal clears for another reason. With no argument, shows the current or most recently achieved goal. clear, stop, off, reset, none, or cancel removes an active goal early

Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-09-28.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.132 first named in a changelog, 6 May 2026

In the changelogs

11

Releases whose published page names /goal.

  1. v2.1.300
    Plugin commands, marketplaces and /goal wait until organization settings are read

    In some sessions, command-sourced plugins, plugin marketplaces and /goal are held back until your organization's settings load, then reloaded

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  2. v2.1.269
    New structured pause/retry/stop classification for autonomous 'goal' turns, with user-facing pause messages

    Autonomous 'goal' turns get structured pause/retry/stop handling with clear 'Goal paused' messages

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  3. v2.1.248
    /goal sets a condition Claude checks before it stops

    New /goal command records a condition Claude checks before it finishes a turn.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  4. v2.1.248
    Completion goals can skip the approval prompt

    Completion goals can be set without an approval dialog by passing ask_user false; clear with /goal clear.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  5. v2.1.248
    Goal state is published as a live event

    Goal progress is now streamed live, so goal indicators update as it advances.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  6. v2.1.234
    Goals nudge themselves when background work is blocking them

    Goals now nudge Claude every 30 minutes when background shells or agents are blocking evaluation.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  7. v2.1.227
    ProposeGoal: Claude can propose a session goal for one-keypress approval

    Claude could propose a session goal you approve with one keypress, but it is switched off.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  8. v2.1.169
    /goal Error Message Updated

    found in this entry's text

  9. v2.1.140
    /goal Now Blocked by allowManagedHooksOnly

    found in this entry's text

  10. v2.1.139
    /goal Status and Completion Behavior

    found in this entry's text

  11. v2.1.132
    Goal Command [In Development]

    found in this entry's text

First cited

6

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /goal was v2.1.139, 11 May 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.13911 May 2026/goal clear to stop early
v2.1.1698 Jun 2026/goal can't run while hooks are restricted
v2.1.24827 Aug 2026Emitted when the user's /goal Stop hook reports met (clears) or not-yet-met (bumps iterations + last_reason).
v2.1.24827 Aug 2026the user can clear it with /goal clear
v2.1.26911 Sep 2026Goal paused · the API rejected the last request · send a message to continue, or run /goal clear
v2.1.30014 Oct 2026/goal can't run yet: your organization's settings haven't been read, so it isn't known whether it allows hooks.

Presence across releases

0

The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.

Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.

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