Remove no-tool goal continuation suppression#20523
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Why
/goalis supposed to keep Codex working until the goal is actually done. The previous continuation logic had two ways to stop early: the continuation prompt told the model to wait for new input when it felt blocked, and the runtime suppressed another continuation turn after a continuation finished without any tool calls.That made goals stop short even when the agent could still keep making progress (I received a few reports of this from users). It also relied on a brittle heuristic that treated "no registry tool calls" as equivalent to "should stop."
What changed
tool_callsas telemetry onlyrequest_user_inputkeeps the existing turn open instead of spawning a new continuation