Objectives

Deprecated — the legacy orchestration runtime. It keeps working. This page documents a command group that drives the frozen legacy runtime (also called: orchestration, warm pool, instance pool, Hermes, sidecar, container runtime, hosted runtime, runtime.pool). It keeps working for existing configs and accepts no new capabilities. Nothing here is disabled, refused or gated, and no route or CLI command on this page has been removed.Since 2026-08 each command on this page also prints a one-line banner on stderr and attaches a machine-readable deprecation object to the JSON envelope on stdout, which stays JSON.parse-able. There is no sunset date: the surface is frozen, not scheduled for removal.New work declares a team({ lead, agents }) on runtime.durable() and submits work with naive teams submit. The per-subcommand replacement is in the table directly below.

Replacement

naive objectives is a second noun for “a goal with tasks under it”, on the frozen legacy runtime. The durable runtime has one noun for work.

Instead of	Use
`naive objectives create "<title>"`	`naive teams submit <team> "<goal>" --tenant <tu>`
linking tasks to an objective	`naive teams submit <team> "<goal>" --task <id>`
`naive objectives list` / `show`	`naive teams board <team> --tenant <tu>`

The banner id is dep.objectives.

Overview

Command	Description	Cost
`naive objectives list`	List all objectives	Free
`naive objectives create <title>`	Create a new objective	Free
`naive objectives show <id>`	Show full objective details	Free
`naive objectives update <id>`	Update status or progress	Free
`naive objectives pause <id>`	Pause an active objective	Free
`naive objectives abandon <id>`	Permanently abandon an objective	Free

How It Works

Objectives are the top-level unit of strategic planning — they represent weeks-to-months of work. The CEO decomposes objectives into tasks on the kanban board, then dispatches them to employees. Objectives can have a pg_cron schedule for automated advancement. Statuses: active → paused | completed | abandoned

List Objectives

naive objectives list

Returns all objectives with their status, progress, and linked task counts.

Create an Objective

naive objectives create "Launch email marketing campaign"
naive objectives create "Build company website" --criteria "3 pages live, mobile responsive"
naive objectives create "Hire engineering team" --drive "Scale product development" --priority high

Options

Flag	Description
`--criteria <text>`	Success criteria — how to know this is done
`--drive <text>`	Driving motivation or business rationale
`--schedule <text>`	Target timeline (e.g., “2 weeks”, “2025-02-01”)
`--priority <level>`	low, medium (default), high, critical

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "action": "objectives.create",
  "result": {
    "id": "obj-abc-123",
    "title": "Build company website",
    "status": "active"
  },
  "next_steps": [
    { "command": "naive objectives show obj-abc-123", "description": "View the new objective" },
    { "command": "naive ceo run \"Decompose and execute objectives\"", "description": "Have the CEO start working on this" }
  ],
  "hints": [
    "Objective created: \"Build company website\" (id: obj-abc-123)",
    "The CEO will decompose this into tasks during its next run"
  ]
}

Show Objective

naive objectives show obj-abc-123

Returns full details: title, status, progress, success criteria, driving rationale, schedule, and linked tasks.

Update an Objective

naive objectives update obj-abc-123 --progress 75
naive objectives update obj-abc-123 --status completed
naive objectives update obj-abc-123 --status active --progress 50

Options

Flag	Description
`--status <status>`	active, paused, completed
`--progress <n>`	Progress percentage (0-100)

Pause an Objective

naive objectives pause obj-abc-123

Pausing an objective:

Sets status to paused
Existing in-progress tasks continue
No new tasks are created or dispatched for this objective
Resume with naive objectives update <id> --status active

Abandon an Objective

naive objectives abandon obj-abc-123

Permanently abandons the objective. Cancels all pending/in-progress tasks linked to it. Completed tasks are preserved. This cannot be undone.

Typical Workflow

# 1. Define a goal
naive objectives create "Launch product X" --criteria "Landing page live, 10 signups"

# 2. Let the CEO execute
naive ceo run "Decompose and execute objectives"

# 3. Monitor progress
naive objectives show obj-abc-123
naive tasks list --objective obj-abc-123

# 4. Track progress
naive objectives update obj-abc-123 --progress 50

# 5. Complete when done
naive objectives update obj-abc-123 --status completed

CLI Reference

Durable runtime

Multi-tenant

Legacy orchestration (deprecated)

Primitives

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

List Objectives

Create an Objective

Options

Output

Show Objective

Update an Objective

Options

Pause an Objective

Abandon an Objective

Typical Workflow

​Replacement

​Overview

​How It Works

​List Objectives

​Create an Objective

​Options

​Output

​Show Objective

​Update an Objective

​Options

​Pause an Objective

​Abandon an Objective

​Typical Workflow

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

List Objectives

Create an Objective

Options

Output

Show Objective

Update an Objective

Options

Pause an Objective

Abandon an Objective

Typical Workflow