Keep parsing, contracts, gates and persisted goal mutations in one dispatcher. Adapters retain authorization, rendering and scheduling; TUI drafting resolves the target session profile off the RPC reader. Document ACP as unsupported rather than implying a goal loop exists.
Independent review: substring matching lost the selected objective (after a
message offering API or UI work, '/goal ship the API' and '/goal ship the UI'
kicked identically), and the gateway and TUI /goal paths still re-sent the
full goal. The rule now lives once in hermes_cli.goals.goal_kick_prompt:
the pointer replaces the goal only when the goal is >= 400 chars, contained
in the last user message, and >= 80% of it. The CLI reads the last user
message from its history; the gateway and TUI read it from the SessionDB
(fail-safe: goal sent verbatim).
Tests: a fragment that selects one option is kicked verbatim; a long goal
that is a minority of a longer message is kicked verbatim; all three
surfaces call the shared function.
`/goal <text>` queues the goal text as the next user turn to start the loop.
When that text is what the user just pasted (a handoff note, a plan the agent
already has), the kickoff re-sends it verbatim: in the 1,393-agent run
`/goal <2,000-char handoff>` came 16 minutes after the same note was pasted
as a message, and the agent spent 11 API calls / 6 min deciding it was a
replay, with the note duplicated in context from then on.
_goal_kick_prompt() compares the normalized goal against the LAST user
message (string or block content); when contained, the kick is a one-line
'[Goal set] Continue with the goal you were just given; there is no need to
re-read it.' Otherwise the goal text is sent as before. Both /goal <text>
and /goal draft use it.
Tests (2): a just-pasted goal (plain and block content) kicks with the
pointer; a new goal, an unrelated last message, and a goal pasted in an
OLDER turn kick verbatim.
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