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Employee Goals Assistant

Helps employees summarise, create, update and (from 26D) delete their performance and development goals in a conversation, following your goal approvals where they're switched on. From 26D, managers can also use it to assign their own goals to team members.
Talent ManagementAI agent (workflow agent from 26C)Good first agent: MaybeTake careChanges dataRelease 26A

Where it helps

Before a check-in, an employee asks how many performance goals are in progress, then updates one to 25% complete.

My take

MY PRACTITIONER VIEW

Useful for keeping goals current, which is where most goal processes fall down. It updates the goal, but whether it's the right goal is still a conversation for the employee and their manager.

Things you can ask

Summarise my performance goals.
How many of my performance goals are in progress?
List development goals due this month.
Update the progress of my "Improve risk management skills" goal to 25%.
Create the "Improve customer satisfaction" performance goal for the FY 2025 goal plan.
Delete my completed development goals. (26D)

Examples based on Oracle's notes. What works depends on your setup.

What it won't do

  • It ignores Visual Builder Studio changes made to the Goals Center page.
  • It only considers development goals that started within the last 18 months.
  • It can only update the goal name, description, dates, priority, success criteria, completion and status.
  • Oracle's 26B note says it didn't yet apply next-level manager approvals or goal-level approvals set by profile option. Oracle lists goal-level approval support in 26D.
  • It won't delete a goal that's in an active performance document, aligned to or shared from another goal, or that the user didn't create.

Good first agent?

Maybe. It changes data, but only the employee's own goals, and approvals still apply.

Risk level: Take care. It changes goals that feed performance reviews, but only the employee's own, and approvals still apply.

Before you switch it on

  1. Are your goal approvals set up the way you want, and have you tested that the agent follows them?
  2. If you built on the old supervisor agent or AI prompts, have you moved to the 26C workflow agent?
  3. Have you told employees they're using AI?

Next steps

Setup at a glance

Open Setup at a glance for the setup steps. Select the agent's type label to see what that type means.

Test it after each update

For Oracle Fusion Applications, non-production (test) quarterly updates follow the weekend after the first Friday of the update month; production follows the weekend after the third Friday. Run these checks after the test update and before production, and verify your tenant's exact dates in Oracle update notifications.

  • Create, update and delete a test goal, and check approvals start where they should.
  • Ask about a goal older than 18 months and check what it says.
  • Try to delete a goal that's in an active performance document and check it stops.

Watch out

The old supervisor version now has a "_Deprecated" suffix and won't get new features. Build on the workflow agent.

How it's changed

26A arrived; 26B follows goal approvals; 26C became a workflow agent (supervisor version deprecated); 26D delete goals, managers assign goals, goal-level approvals.

  1. 26D
    Support Goal Level Approvals in the Employee Goals Assistant AgentOracle's note ↗
  2. 26D
    Include Document Tool in Goal Creation AI AgentOracle's note ↗
  3. 26D
    Support Delete and Manager Assign Goal Actions in Goals AgentsOracle's note ↗
  4. 26D
    Support Updating Goal Progress Notes in Goal Management AgentsOracle's note ↗
  5. 26D
    Update Goal Weights in Goals Assistants AI AgentsOracle's note ↗
  6. 26C
    Conversion of Generative AI Prompts and Supervisor Agents to Goal Management Workflow AgentsOracle's note ↗
  7. 26C
    Task and Measurement Attributes Support for Goals AgentsOracle's note ↗
  8. 26B
    Employee Goal Assistant Agent: Trigger Approvals for New or Updated GoalsOracle's note ↗
  9. 26A
    Redwood: Employee Goals Assistant AgentOracle's note ↗

Related agents

Manager Performance Evaluation Assistant

Gives managers a conversational view of their team's performance. It can rank team members' overall performance for a year, compare performance over time, find team goals that are performing poorly, and spot team members below the target proficiency for their competencies.

Team Goals Assistant

Helps managers look after their team's performance and development goals in a conversation: summarising the team's goals, viewing one person's goal, creating and assigning goals to team members, and updating them. From 26D it can also delete goals and assign goals to direct and indirect reports or selected team members.

Last reviewed November 2026

This is an independent practitioner view, not Oracle documentation. Features, names and availability change each release and depend on your licences and setup; some agentic applications carry extra costs. Always check Oracle's own notes and your environment.