The pattern the newsletter picked up is a user asking Codex to draft its own “/goal”, the objective file that steers its subsequent work, rather than writing the brief by hand; the poster the issue quotes called the result “the highest leverage AI agent configuration available today” (X). It comes two days after Hermes Agent took the token rankings by generating its own skills and six weeks after a research loop wrote the strategies for its own outer loop: skills, harness and now the objective are being authored by the agent, the thread the self-authored-scaffolding theme names in June. The next day Recursive Superintelligence emerged from stealth with $650 million to have AI experiment on improving itself, and in June the Self-Harness paradigm closed the loop without a human engineer.
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Users metaprompt an agent to write its own objective file
After agents writing their own skills and harnesses, the corpus records them writing the brief itself: the objective, the last human-authored layer, moves inside the loop.
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Users are now metaprompting Codex to draft its own goal specification, with one calling the resulting stack the highest-leverage agent configuration available today.
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- Welcome to May 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- @daniel_mac8 on X: metaprompting Codex to draft its own /goal (x.com)
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