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ProposeGoal: Claude can propose a session goal for one-keypress approval

Not switched on
Useful4 Signal5
Session Goals Notable

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

A ProposeGoal tool and a modelProposedGoals setting are built and hidden behind a gate that is off.

Feature flag
tengu_propose_goal Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.227: on

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modelProposedGoals/goal
What

A new tool lets Claude propose a completion condition for the session. Approving it sets a session goal, the same as running /goal, after which a separate check runs each turn and Claude keeps working until the condition is met. A new setting modelProposedGoals takes auto, alwaysAsk or disabled, shown as "Claude-proposed goals" in the config panel. Both the setting row and the tool are hidden unless the flag tengu_propose_goal is on, and it is off in this build.

Details
  • the approval dialog reads "Claude proposes a goal" with buttons "Set this goal" and "Not now", and explains that approving is like running /goal
  • inputs are condition and ask_user, which defaults to true; with ask_user: false, intended only when the user's own words stated the outcome, the goal is set directly by running /goal <condition>
  • it cannot clear a goal: "ProposeGoal only proposes a new goal; it cannot clear one. The user can clear an active goal with /goal clear."
  • refused in non-interactive sessions, in plan mode, in sub-agent contexts ("ProposeGoal cannot be used in agent contexts") and when the evaluator is blocked; the condition text is length-capped
  • only one proposal can be outstanding at a time; events are tengu_goal_proposed and tengu_goal_proposal_decided
  • the typed /goal command already worked in the previous release; the tool and the setting are new here
Evidence

tengu_goal_proposed, tengu_propose_goal, Claude proposes a goal

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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