← All IntelClip / EducationPut the goal in a file so you can change scope mid-run
From Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex · ≈41:14
A goal.md plus plan and work-log files let you re-scope a day-long run and read a human-sized summary instead of a multi-gigabyte session object.
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- A goal.md plus plan and work-log files let you re-scope a day-long run and read a human-sized summary instead of a multi-gigabyte session object.
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better verification, you can make a lot of progress. In the in the monor repo, I've also included a skill called ultra goal. And all it does is instead of setting the goal in the app, we set it in a file, right? So we have a goal MD file. And what that means is you can edit the goal while it's being run. So you can add more scope uh just like many many real projects do. We also define a plan again that we can reference. But the benefit of this is as you're learning more about the projects and you're changing the plan and the goal as these as these models are just like looping uh it can update it understanding of the system and then sometimes I have like a state MD file or a work log just to track these like longer running tasks like if if things are running for like a day or two I want to know what's going on and I'm never going to read this like 4 gigabyte like you know session JSON object but I can look at the work log have it have another model summarize it using like a side chat and go from there.
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