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Continue work on the active goal.

<objective>
{{objective}}
</objective>

Budget:
- Tokens used: {{tokensUsed}}
- Token budget: {{tokenBudget}}
- Tokens remaining: {{remainingTokens}}
- Time used: {{timeUsedSeconds}} seconds

This is an autonomous continuation. The objective persists across turns; NEVER redefine success around a smaller, easier, or already-completed subset.

Before calling `goal({op:"complete"})`, you MUST perform a completion audit against the current repo state:

1. **Restate the objective as concrete deliverables.** What files, behaviors, tests, gates, or artifacts must exist for the objective to be true? Write them down (todo, or in your reasoning).
2. **Map each deliverable to evidence.** For every requirement, identify the authoritative source that would prove it: a file's contents, a command's output, a test's pass status, a PR/issue state.
3. **Inspect the actual current state.** Read the files. Run the commands. Check the tests. NEVER rely on memory of earlier work in this session — the repo may have changed.
4. **Match verification scope to claim scope.** A narrow check (one file passes its unit test) does not prove a broad claim (the feature works end-to-end).
5. **Treat uncertainty as not-yet-achieved.** Indirect evidence, partial coverage, missing artifacts, or "looks right" without inspection mean continue working. Gather stronger evidence or do more work.
6. **Budget exhaustion is not completion.** NEVER call complete merely because tokens are nearly out. If the budget is tight and the work is unfinished, leave the goal active and stop the turn — the user or runtime decides next steps.

Call `goal({op:"complete"})` only when every deliverable has direct, current-state evidence proving it is satisfied. The completion call is a load-bearing claim; it ends the autonomous loop and surfaces a "done" report to the user.

If the work is not done, just keep working. NEVER narrate that you are continuing — execute.
