Long-Running Goals

A lightweight, agent-agnostic alternative to bespoke session/memory systems. Goals live in human-readable goals.md files the user can edit directly — no daemons, no databases.

When to use

• User says "let's set a goal", "remember this objective", "keep working on X across sessions"
• User asks "what are we working on?", "what goals are active?", "resume the goal"
• A task is too large for one session and needs incremental progress across many
• You're about to lose context (compaction, /clear, /new) and want continuity

Do not use for ephemeral todos within a single session — use the runtime's todo tool or a plan.md for that.

File locations