Warren Gatland is to remain as Wales head coach and lead them to the 2027 World Cup.
Gatland placed his future in the hands of the Welsh Rugby Union following his side's World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina on Saturday.
The 60-year-old New Zealander, pointing to a break-up clause in his contract, said: "If the union want to get rid of me, that’s up to them."
But asked at a press conference on Wednesday whether he will stay through to the next World Cup in Australia, Gatland said: "Absolutely. That’s the plan.
"I had a joke with Nigel (Walker, interim WRU chief executive) before and said 'You can’t get rid of me'.
"I think my contract said if we didn’t get out of the pool they had a clause that said they could get rid of me. I said: ‘If you do want to pay me off that’s up to you’. But I’m excited what we can do as a group."
Wales were written off by many before the World Cup after a difficult 12 months, which saw them suffer an embarrassing defeat to Georgia and head coach Wayne Pivac sacked in December.
Gatland, who coached Wales between 2007 and 2019, returned to oversee a Six Nations campaign that produced only one victory after the players had threatened to take strike action over contractual issues.
Ken Owens, captain in that campaign, described Wales as the "laughing stock" of world rugby, but Gatland believes Wales will move forward after topping their World Cup pool with wins over Australia, Fiji, Georgia and Portugal.
"We’ve got an opportunity to bring some youngsters in and build on the cycle to 2027 with players having 50, 60, 70 caps behind them," said Gatland, who became the first coach in France to lead a team to four World Cup quarter-finals.
"There’s also an opportunity for us to build some closer relationships with the regions and some of the changes with coaches and personnel there, and that hasn’t always been the case in the past.
"Often those relationships have been quite fractured because of things that were going on between the regions and the unions, and we got dragged into it."
Meanwhile, Gatland said his England counterpart Steve Borthwick must be ready to counter the "dark arts" of South Africa's director of rugby Rassie Erasmus ahead of their World Cup semi-final on Saturday.
Gatland also wrote in a column in the Daily Telegraph that England must match the defending champions both physically and mentally in Paris.
Erasmus had answered a question about who he thought Borthwick would field by reading out a possible line-up and Gatland said that was an attempt to unsettle England.
"Rassie has already tried to gain a mental edge and sow seeds of doubt by naming what he thinks Borthwick's team will be for the semi-finals," wrote Gatland.
"To have any chance against the Springboks you must attempt not just to match them physically but also to be tactically smart and show no signs of mental weakness."
Gatland and Erasmus fell out during the 2021 British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa where Erasmus acted as a "water boy", running onto the field and passing on instructions while wearing a bib reserved for those who carry refreshments to the players.
This was later banned by World Rugby, with Gatland quipping: "If he is going to act as a water boy, at least he should have some water in his bottle".
Gatland also wrote he did not like South Africa's "win-at-all-costs attitude where the end justifies the means" and suggested England ask questions "about the number of head injury assessments South Africa called for in their victory against France".
Two players went off to be checked by doctors on the insistence of the Springboks coaches during the quarter-final win over the hosts on Sunday.
When asked whether he would ever use the HIA regulations to rotate players and give them some rest during the game, Erasmus answered with a curt "no".
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