Goal-Oriented Planning
Master how agents define objectives and create strategic plans to achieve them
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0 / 5 completedChoosing Your Strategy
Once you've decomposed a goal, how do you decide what to do first? Different strategies optimize for different outcomes: speed, risk mitigation, value delivery, or motivation.
Strategy Comparison Tool
Compare different goal achievement strategies. Click to explore pros, cons, and use cases!
Greedy First
Tackle easiest/quickest sub-goals first for immediate progress
- •Fast visible progress
- •Builds momentum and confidence
- •Reduces total task count quickly
- •Good for morale
- •May leave hardest tasks for last
- •Can create bottlenecks
- •Risk of running out of resources late
- •Critical tasks might be delayed
Goal Achievement Simulation
Watch how an agent processes a goal from start to completion. Click to start simulation!
Implementation Best Practices
📊 Track Progress Metrics
Monitor completion rate, time spent, resources used. This helps you evaluate if your strategy is working and when to adapt.
🔄 Re-evaluate Regularly
Priorities change. After completing each sub-goal, re-assess what should come next based on new information or changed circumstances.
⚖️ Balance Quick Wins and Long-term Value
Pure greedy strategy feels good short-term but leaves hard tasks. Pure value-based ignores morale. Find the balance that keeps momentum while making meaningful progress.
🛡️ Build in Failure Recovery
Not all sub-goals succeed on first try. Have fallback strategies, alternative approaches, and clear criteria for when to abandon a sub-goal.
🎯 Define "Done" Clearly
For each sub-goal and the main goal, have explicit completion criteria. Prevents endless refinement and ensures you know when to move on.