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/goal completion behavior: quality gates and over-continuation handling

Cluster 34196 · agent. Data as of 2026-10-28 11:56 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #79680 on 6 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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The members all concern how the /goal feature decides whether a goal is complete. One proposes deterministic quality-gate commands that must pass before completion, while the other two describe the judge over-continuing exploratory or narrow-scope goals and a related change addressing that.

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#79680 feat(goals): quality gates — deterministic commands that must pass before /goal completes

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files: gateway/run.py, gateway/slash_commands.py, hermes_cli/cli_commands_mixin.py, hermes_cli/commands.py, hermes_cli/goals.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_goal_gates.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/goals.md

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From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

#34343 fix(goals): stop /goal over-continuation on exploratory + scope-narrow goals (#34196, #34197) · superseded by another PR → #107938

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Closed#34196/goal judge over-continues exploratory goals unless the assistant explicitly says the goal is complete

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Subsystem: agent
Merged PRs: #79680
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 1 PR closed without merging
Fix link checked: 6 Aug 2026

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