Teknium 265bd59c1d feat: /goal — persistent cross-turn goals (Ralph loop) (#18262) ... Add a standing-goal slash command that keeps Hermes working toward a user-stated objective across turns until it is achieved, paused, or the turn budget runs out. Our take on the Ralph loop — cf. Codex CLI 0.128.0's /goal. After each turn, a lightweight auxiliary-model judge call asks 'is this goal satisfied by the assistant's last response?'. If not, and we're under the turn budget (default 20), Hermes feeds a continuation prompt back into the same session as a normal user message. Any real user message preempts the continuation loop automatically. Judge failures fail OPEN (continue) so a flaky judge never wedges progress — the turn budget is the real backstop. ### Commands - `/goal <text>` — set a standing goal (kicks off the first turn) - `/goal` or `/goal status` — show current state - `/goal pause` — pause the continuation loop - `/goal resume` — resume (resets turn counter) - `/goal clear` — drop the goal Works on both CLI and gateway platforms via the central CommandDef registry. ### Design invariants preserved - **Prompt cache**: continuation prompts are regular user-role messages appended to history. No system-prompt mutation, no toolset swap. - **Role alternation**: continuation is a user turn, never injected mid-tool-loop. - **Session persistence**: goal state lives in SessionDB.state_meta keyed by `goal:<session_id>`, so `/resume` picks it up. - **Mid-run safety**: on the gateway, `/goal status|pause|clear` are allowed mid-run (control-plane only); setting a new goal requires `/stop` first so we don't race a second continuation prompt against the current turn. ### Files - `hermes_cli/goals.py` (new, 380 lines) — GoalManager + judge + state - `hermes_cli/commands.py` — CommandDef entry - `hermes_cli/config.py` — `goals.max_turns` default - `hermes_cli/web_server.py` — dashboard category merge - `cli.py` — /goal handler + post-turn continuation hook in process_loop - `gateway/run.py` — /goal handler + post-turn continuation hook wrapping _handle_message_with_agent - `tests/hermes_cli/test_goals.py` (new, 26 tests) — judge parsing, fail-open semantics, lifecycle, persistence, budget exhaustion - `website/docs/reference/slash-commands.md` — docs entry		2026-04-30 23:10:20 -07:00
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developer-guide	feat: final platform plugin parity — webhook delivery, platform hints, docs	2026-04-29 21:56:51 -07:00
getting-started	feat(gateway): restart manual profile gateways after update	2026-04-30 20:00:31 -07:00
guides	docs: two-week gap sweep — platforms, CLI, config, TUI, hooks, providers (#17727)	2026-04-29 20:32:37 -07:00
integrations	docs: resync reference, user-guide, developer-guide, and messaging pages against code (#17738)	2026-04-29 20:55:59 -07:00
reference	feat: /goal — persistent cross-turn goals (Ralph loop) (#18262)	2026-04-30 23:10:20 -07:00
user-guide	docs(sidebar): collapse exploding skills tree to a single Skills node (#18259)	2026-04-30 23:08:22 -07:00
index.md	docs: resync reference, user-guide, developer-guide, and messaging pages against code (#17738)	2026-04-29 20:55:59 -07:00