Analysis: Codex '/goal' demo auto-built a complex extraction shooter and generated all assets. Community support 74.47% vs confront 6.38% — high enthusiasm.
Pretty incredible You have to try the new '/goal' feature in Codex It worked for over an hour and built me an entire complex extraction shooter video game You give it a goal, then it works endlessly until the goal is complete. It's like a Ralph loop. Can run for days If you enable the image gen skill before you run the goal, it will even generate ALL the assets for your game autonomously. I didn't manually create ANY of the assets you see in the video Recommendations: enable the image gen skill, put on skip all permissions, and give the prompt as much detail as you can. It will accomplish ALL of it This has to be the sickest way to build games/ long running app tasks ever
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
What the community is saying — both sides
people praise the integration for enabling end-to-end asset generation and calling it one of the biggest advances in “vibe coding.”
long-running /goal loops (53+ hours) and agents that don’t quit are seen as a shift: one person can run continuous builds and long tasks unattended.
viewers amazed an entire shooter was produced in an hour; the gap between a prompt and a playable game keeps shrinking.
many ask how playable and polished the generated result actually is, not just that it was produced quickly.
CLI-only availability, questions about desktop support, how to access the CLI, token usage, and tier limits are blocking wider adoption.
devs suggest running parallel /goal loops with git worktrees and using Codex Pro to print code for faster feature iteration.
calls for streams, strong intent to try it out, and renewed energy to revive shelved projects.
short replies range from “sick” to “outstanding,” reflecting strong positive buzz around the capability.
some plan to task agents with money-making goals and worry about budgeting tokens for larger, monetizable projects.
"/goal is not even in the codex cli for me" — user reports the command absent despite being on the latest version, implying a rollout bug, version mismatch, or environment-specific issue.
"I don’t believe you. Put it in a public repository" — a call to share reproducible evidence so others can verify the claim rather than rely on assertions.
"codex /goal still needs babysitting" — criticism that the feature requires manual oversight and isn’t reliable or polished yet.
Most popular replies, ranked by engagement
/goal is only in the CLI right now. Can't wait until it's in the desktop app. Here was the prompt: build a godot game top down third person shooter that is a extraction looter shooter. you run around a jungle trying to gather loot and kill enemeies that drop loot. you will need
pretty awesome watching it write a bunch of prompts to itself to generate assets and put them in the game. I think OpenAI integrating the image model into Codex is sneaky one of the biggest advancements in vibe coding this year. so wildly useful
My /goal has been running for 53 hours nonstop
/goal is not even in the codex cli for me :( I am on the latest version
Honestly, I don’t believe you. Put it in a public repository and share with us and then we will have something to talk about.
codex /goal still needs babysitting tbh
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