OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Guide Urges Developers to Strip Down Skills and AGENTS.md

OpenAI released official guidance for GPT-6 Astra titled "Rethinking skills and prompts," arguing that hand-holding rules built for weaker models now waste context and should be trimmed. Chinese developers echoed the advice, calling old AGENTS.md and Skills setups a liability.

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