Move goal prompts to hidden user context#21792
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Why
Goal continuation and budget-limit steering were being injected as developer-role messages. That gives internal goal steering higher instruction priority than ordinary user context and can interfere with code that treats developer messages as durable instruction surface.
The goal prompt still is not user-authored transcript content. It should stay hidden from visible thread rendering,
TurnItem::UserMessageparsing, andUserPromptSubmithooks, while being presented to the model at user-message priority.Related to #20792, but intentionally separate from that fix: hidden goal context should not become the first user-message preview for
thread/list; goal-started thread discoverability should come from goal metadata instead.What Changed
GoalContext, a contextual user fragment rendered as<goal_context>...</goal_context>.GoalContextuser-role messages.<untrusted_objective>escaping.