Tool Create Goal

About this prompt

A prompt mirrored from kekmodel/codex-system-prompts.

Prompt body

---
name: 'Tool: create_goal'
category: tool
codex_version: rust-v0.128.0-alpha.1
codex_commit: 8148b7b1f8660e464661743587f754471ae60868
source:
  path: codex-rs/tools/src/goal_tool.rs
  kind: rust_toolspec_inline
  reached_from:
  - tools/src/goal_tool.rs:45
  tool_name: create_goal
extraction:
  pass: 1.7
  method: rust_toolspec_inline
variables: []
tokens:
  o200k_base: 193
description: '`create_goal` ToolSpec.'
---
```json
{
  "type": "function",
  "name": "create_goal",
  "description": "Create a goal only when explicitly requested by the user or system/developer instructions; do not infer goals from ordinary tasks.\nSet token_budget only when an explicit token budget is requested. Fails if a goal exists; use {UPDATE_GOAL_TOOL_NAME} only for status.",
  "parameters": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "objective": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Required. The concrete objective to start pursuing. This starts a new active goal only when no goal is currently defined; if a goal already exists, this tool fails."
      },
      "token_budget": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Optional positive token budget for the new active goal."
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
  }
}
```

Variables

Best for

• •First-use as-is; the defaults work.
• •Fork if your audience or voice is significantly different from the author's.
• •Chain into a workflow when one prompt isn't enough — multi-step flows are the usual next move.