6 people reported
All time, since Sep 30.
Goal drift in long tasks
“The agent repeatedly changed what it was trying to deliver, despite written requirements, explicit scope restrictions, corrections, and handoff documents.”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/13766/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends
Agent drifts from stated goal in long tasks, even after correction. Agent narrows scope or swaps in its own criteria despite written requirements, acknowledges the drift when challenged, then drifts again and reports completion.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- Codex agent
- Versions
- 0.159.1 to 26.930.31730
- Platforms
- Linux, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow.
Part of: Agent loses goal on long tasks5 bugs
Not quite your bug?
- Turns end before work finishes19 people
Original reports6, newest first
- Repeated scope drift in long Codex tasks: agent-generated assumptions become requirementsOn the forum#1409425
- Agent expands cleanup scope into proposal rewrites and consumes usage on repeated reworkOn GitHub#56223
- Repeated instruction-following failures and false task completion — Codex CLI / GPT-6 Astra MaxOn GitHub#55741
- I can’t trust Codex with long tasks anymore. It keeps moving the goalpostsOn the forum#1407513
- Sustained goal-coherence failure in Codex Desktop: retains details, loses governing objective even after explicit correctionOn GitHub#51187
- [GPT-6 Astra] Goal substitution and false completion despite explicit direction and repeated focus-guide checksOn GitHub#49705