How we use /goal to find bugs in Patch the Planet
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Summary
Over the first few weeks of Patch the Planet, our engineers found three techniques for using /goal, which hands Codex an open-ended objective and lets it work independently toward a success condition.
Why it matters
The article provides a repeatable AI-assisted vulnerability-research workflow: define outcomes from a threat model, give each agent one objective, verify candidates with executable evidence and retain a final human review gate.
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Product
- Codex
- Published
- Collected
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