On Claude if you start with that, it won't stop until it achieves or exhausts your prompt. It feels like "here's your mission, go do it". I use it a few times a week.

The llm runs in a loop until it meets a condition (the goal).

It loops until it thinks it has finished the goal

An agent is an llm running on a loop until it decides it should stop.

/goal is a gimmick where you run a "parent" agent on top that runs the agent on a loop until the it decides to stop, just prompting it "nope, not done yet, continue".

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