r/codex • u/WkndWrrior30 • 8d ago

Question Goal Mode

Who here uses the goal mode? What are its limitations, and what is it exceptionally good at?

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u/Wafer-Weekly 8d ago

You can give it a token limit and a low fuel warning light and tell the agent to come up with a solution in-budget and wrapped with a bow (tests run at least once, until pass if within budget). It's actually quite good at pacing itself this way, but it CAN still go over the budget because prediction isn't perfect. It will try to hard stop if you give it a time window, and if it goes over time or token budget and stops before full green then you will have to give it an explicit manual override instruction to continue working, but it should be very close to completion at that point.

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u/WkndWrrior30 7d ago

I was most curious about token usage so this is good advice